Malala Yousafzai Quotes
Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential
Yousafzai, Malala. "Nobel Lecture." Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony, 10 Dec. 2014, Oslo, Norway. Address.
The Emperor was then only 20 years old and it is doubtful that this was actually written by him personally or even that he was the originator or driver of this policy—probably the strongest statement regarding education of any nation in history. Nonetheless, it is a great quotation on the role of education in the nation. He even ordained that all girls should be educated—an achievement which had not been achieved by the majority of countries 140 years later in 2012. Most incredible about this quotation is that the Emperor made everything else of importance subordinate to the education of children." Meiji the Great
Some find interest in the fact that Adams did not see education as raising the lower classes to be equal to that of the upper class. He chose the word “nearer.”
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.
