“One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world.” (Malala Yousafzai). This quote demonstrates the strong belief of education to Malala. She took persistence to a whole new level, as she bravely fought for women’s equal rights. Malala Yousafzai created a new type of education in the Pakistani society, persisted as she innovated ways to overcome the inequality that women had to be faced with, and illuminated many pathways for women all around the world. Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora in the Swat Valley of Pakistan 's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. She had an early dream of becoming a doctor, and valued education (“Malala Yousafzai,” 2012). As she started going to school in January 2009, the Taliban, a group of Pakistani militants started to invade Swat Valley. Many children started to stay at home because of worried parents. Malala …show more content…
First and foremost, she had to endure the struggle of when the Taliban took over, and started closing multiple schools. The Taliban believed that girls should stay at home and cook, do laundry and all the motherly jobs...except get a proper education (“Malala Yousafzai,” 2012). Nonetheless, Malala still kept going to school even though many girls were starting to be left at home, in fear of the Taliban (“Malala Yousafzai,” 2012) (“Malala Yousafzai,” 2013). Another challenge that Malala faced was when she got shot. She was rushed to a Pakistani hospital and later to a Birmingham hospital in England. Several people would have given up all hope and thought of it to not be worth the risk. But, she kept on persisting and trying as hard as she could to stay alive. She became stronger both mentally and physically everyday, and a few days later she started going to a school in Birmingham. If she had not been persistent, then maybe girls wouldn’t have been treated as they are