Quote of the day by Malala Yousafzai: ‘One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world’

Quote of the day by Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai was 15 when a gunman boarded her school bus in Pakistan's Swat Valley and shot her because she had spoken publicly about girls’ right to attend school. She survived. The attack brought her story to the world, and her campaign for education grew far beyond the valley where it began.Three years later, in 2014, she became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Her acceptance speech at the United Nations had the same message that had defined her activism from the beginning: education gives children the ability to shape their own futures.Her most famous line captures that belief with striking simplicity: “One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.”The power of the quote comes from its simplicity. There is no mention of wealth, political authority or technology. The ingredients are things found in almost every classroom. A child who learns something new can carry that knowledge into a family, a workplace or a community. A teacher can influence hundreds of students over a career. A book can carry an idea across generations. A pen gives someone the ability to record that idea, question it or create some...