What Matters to you? Education is something that every person has a right towards. Standing up for these rights is a brave and courageous act to do. In every part of the world there are different educational rights for men and women. In mostly Asian countries, education is not a priority for women, even though women do want to have an education. But some women are actually strong enough to stand up for these rights. Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani teenager who was brave enough to campaign for girls’ education when it was not allowed. Where she is from, the Taliban had banned girls from attending school. Her thoughts on education gave the idea that education is very powerful and that every girl has a right to it. With her father also being an education activist, she had the support she needed to keep on going on the path she had made. Yousafzai is one of the most popular teenagers we know today, and for such a great reason. Before she was shot by the Taliban for standing up for girls’ educational rights, she was also a blogger. She would blog on a BBC website about her life under the Taliban’s restrictions and orders. It was way to tell the world about the influence of the Taliban on their lives. In one of the blogs she reported that she was still studying for her annual exams but because of the ban for girls from school she was uncertain if she was even going to be able to take her exams and if all the studying she was doing was even worth it. These blogs were written constantly and every single time there would be something new to report on how it was under the rule of the Taliban. Yousafzai once wanted to be a doctor, but looking back to her experiences in blogging and becoming an educational activist, she decided that she wants to become a politician. “I have a new dream ... I must be a politician to save this country. There are so many crises in our country. I want to remove these crises” (Class Dismissed Documentary). She wants to be someone who can help her country get rid of all the horrible and terrifying events taking place under the rule of people who aren’t thinking about everybody equally. Yousafzai started to appear in documentaries, interviews, newspapers, and articles. With gaining all this recognition her life was put more into danger. The Taliban did not want some girl campaigning for girls’ educational rights when they were strictly against it. Death threats were made towards her and published in the newspapers. Notes filled with death threats were slid under her door and even Facebook was not safe for her to use because of the threats and fake profiles made under her name. But still Malala did not stop doing what she knew had to be done in order for all the girls to receive a good education and have a good future. Even though the Taliban did attempt to kill her, she survived because she still had to stand up for herself and all the other girls who are deprived of their education. Humans like Malala are very hard to find these days. She is one person who will always be recognized for the good deed she has done for herself, for the girls in her country, and her country itself. She has proved to be a woman with power and a mission in mind. Malala has given many interviews and has been praised a lot based on those interviews because of what she says in them. She has good thoughts towards the future of the girls in her country and for her country also. Powerful women like her cannot and shouldn’t be stopped, because these are the women who will be thanked by future generations for what they have done for their countries.