“Education is the most powerful weapon one can use to change the world”-Nelson Mandela Assalamualaikum to my respected teacher and fellow classmates. Today I will be speaking on the topic of Education and a girl hero, Malala Yousafzai. Education can be defined the gradual process of acquiring knowledge. Education is a vital part of anyone’s life. It begins from the time you are born until your death. When we think about education, the first thing that pops into our mind is school and colleges but education is not only limited to school and colleges. While a great deal of learning can come from teachers, professors, books and classrooms, these are not the only avenues of education because it goes far beyond that. Education, first and foremost, …show more content…
This lack of education means more than just another generation of illiterate children, who will enter into the same cycle as their parents. This is a generation of children who will continue into a life of poverty, with no real tools to fight the cycle that plagues their and their families’ lives. With the educational needs of children so often not met, children are not being given a fighting chance at breaking the cycle of poverty, disease, abuse, war and much …show more content…
Malala Yousafzai is a young girl at the time who was shot in the head by the Taliban for daring to seek an education. The Taliban taught they could silence Malala, but they could not. Malala survived the attack and ever since, this young women, not much older than you and I, has been wowing the world with her courage, her passion and her dedication to the fight for children’s education. Two years ago, Malala presented the UN with a petition signed by over 3 million people that urged them to help all children around the world gain access to an education. The UN responded by recommitting to their Millennium Development goal which states that “by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete the full course of primary schooling”. Ever since, Malala Yousafzai has brought change, light and hope to the world. With her fight has come offers of education across continents. Children across the globe, in countries such as India, Nigeria and Pakistan, have experienced this change and have been afforded an opportunity of a basic