Malala Yousafzai Quotes
Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.
Yousafzai, Malala, and Christina Lamb. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. Little, Brown and Company, 2013.
In the entire Finnish curriculum there is only one standard test required and that is in the last year of high school. Finland graduates 93% of its high school students compared to the 76% in the U. S. And Finnish students score Number 1 among all nations, much higher on International Math and Science Tests than American Students of comparable age. Test taking skills should not be confused with education. Tests are one indicator of student performance and the success of our home and schools in educating children. But in some areas we have improved test scores slightly but provided less education.
Malala Yousafzai, often referred to mononymously as Malala, is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become "the most prominent citizen" of the country.