Malala Yousafzai

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Fresh Air · Malala Yousafzai · 20 Apr 2026 podcast

It's very textbook focused.

So in Pakistan, by age like 15, I had only read eight or nine books outside my school curriculum.

And it's only because somebody gifted those books to me.

So I read The Alchemist and one or two other books like that.

And I was so proud of myself.

When I moved to the UK, I realized that kids have big libraries in their schools and they're encouraged to read fiction and books outside their school curriculum.

I also found out in the UK that they actually had science labs.

So they were not just learning about an experiment by just reading about the experiment, like this chemical meets this chemical and then this thing happens.

And you're like, I wonder what that looks like.

kids here can actually see what it looks like.

So when I would be in a biology class in the UK and in a chemistry class, and I could see these things happening right in front of my eyes, I just wished like more and more kids in Pakistan can also see that.

Experiments and like, you know, it's like such a privilege.

Of course, my mother is very proud of the work that I am doing and that my father is doing.

And I do believe that it is her support and her strength behind us that helped both my father and I to keep on fighting.

But I saw her real resilience and commitment to education when we moved to the UK, because now she was in a completely different country, a new culture, a new language, and she suddenly became a dependent.

on others if she had to call a cab if she had to see a doctor if she had to speak to somebody at the grocery store she needed somebody with her to speak in english and she felt very helpless so she started taking english classes and she's been learning english for the past seven or eight years and it's always such a beautiful moment for me at home when i'm helping my mom with her homework because

Because usually it is parents helping their kids.

But in our house, it's a daughter helping her mother.

And it's such a beautiful moment.

She loves her education.

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