The Girl Who Stood Up To The Taliban
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Who are the hosts and what are their personal education stories?
I'm Cassie. And I'm Danielle. Welcome back to Watch Her Cook, a podcast dedicated to sharing the incredible lives of women who have taken their power back throughout history.
Well, in my little intro there, we talked a little bit about school and the importance of school. So let's talk about our own experiences really quick, especially with early education, because I think those are really formative years that a lot of us reflect back on and can kind of trace where our lives have gone based on what we loved or maybe didn't love about what we learned in school. So do you have anything that you look back on and reflect and say, wow, that's where my first introduction to my interest now took hold.
Yeah, actually, I do have an origin story. I'd love to hear it. Yeah, so I, to this day, I think elementary school is my favorite, which I think maybe a lot of people can relate to because it's probably the most fun years of schooling. Also, maybe some of the most awkward. But I realized pretty young that I was really interested in history. And I think it was fourth grade where we were given the book called Night by Eli Wiesel, which is a Holocaust book. And I remember reading that and being like, wow, this is history that I didn't know. And it was talking about landscapes and countries I didn't know existed outside of my little bubble. And that was my moment in school where I was like, I really love history, and I need to learn more. And from then forward, other people would be reading Captain Underpants with all the other kids or Goodnight Moon, and I would be sitting there with some type of historical disaster book at nine years old reading it at night. So that was where I really discovered my love of history and just –
People, more specifically, I loved books that surrounded people who are really important in history and who overcame really difficult situations. And that was what I was drawn to and have continued to be.
And that's why we're friends. That's why we found each other later in life. I just knew that about you the second I met you. I was like, this girl's weird. This girl loved historical accounts in third grade. And I just know that. You could just sense it. I could. Yeah.
I'd love to hear your origin story because I know that we have – similar interests in different ways.
Well, it's so funny because I've been thinking about that. And I don't know if I have a particular story like you do, but I do have a very vivid memory of one of my earliest projects in school. And it must have been around second or third grade. I remember my teacher's name. Her and it was definitely miss quinn hey hey um she was great and um i remember it was we've talked about this before but we were each assigned a person and you had to do a project on them and present you know to the class about their lives and things like that and i'm pretty sure it was my mom's idea instead of like a diorama or something she used a two liter bottle of soda and filled it with sand and like dressed the bottle to look like this person. And the person was Amelia Earhart. And I did her life story and. touched upon her disappearance and all of that. And that really got me interested in more of like, I guess, just like the mystery of the unknown, of like what happened to this person. There's so many theories. There's so many different explanations.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who are the hosts and what are their personal education stories?
1:02–6:05
2
Who is Malala Yousafzai and what is her background?
6:05–10:36
3
How did Taliban rule impact education in Swat Valley?
10:36–14:00
4
What early acts of bravery did Malala show against Taliban oppression?
14:00–14:10
5
How did Malala’s father influence her fight for education?
14:10–17:26
6
What was the significance of Malala’s anonymous blog under the pen name Gul Makai?
17:26–19:36
7
What dangers did Malala face for standing up to the Taliban?
19:36–21:58
8
How does Malala’s story inspire global advocacy for girls’ education?
21:58–40:16