An Education

  Recently in a Pakistani town, a teenage girl was shot in the head and neck by the Taliban. Her name is Malala Yousufzai, and she was targeted because she supports education for girls. Education is something Americans take for granted, while others are willing to die for the right to an education.

Malala has been an activist for the right of education for years. She started writing a blog for the BBC network when she was just a seventh grader. In her blog she writes about her life in Swat Valley, and living under the Taliban rule. She also writes about the ban the Taliban put on girls going to school, while the boys were still allowed to go, and her views on it. She began to do interviews on print and on television, and is a chairperson of the District Child Assembly Swat. Malala even won Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize. The Taliban took her education away from her, and she wanted to share that with as many people she could.

Malala is a very brave girl who fought for the right to an education. Education is something that Americans are required to have, and something they don't think twice about. In fact, most teenagers in America only complain about school. To them, school is the last place they ever want to be. But to people in countries where school isn't an option to most, all they want is the chance to go to school. Many Americans waste their education, never paying attention or doing their work, and dropping out. The ones who do good in school get the chance to go to college, furthering their ability to do well in life. Most never realize how blessed they were to have the chance at an education.