Malala Chosen for Leadership Wall
On Wednesday, March 8, 2017, the Lower School added the newest member to its Leadership Wall: Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani activist and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She was chosen from a list of leaders nominated by Lower School students, including John Glenn, Eleanor Roosevelt, and John Wooden. During the Assembly for the Leadership Wall, one student from each of the four Lower School grades was asked to research and report on why Malala was chosen as this year’s Leader.
Growing up in a rural area of Pakistan where girls were banned from attending school, Malala became an international symbol for human rights advocacy after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban. Since recovering, she has become a major advocate for education and women’s rights around the world. In 2014, Malala was announced as the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Malala will be the tenth member of the Lower School Leadership Wall, joining George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Harriet Tubman, Norman Borlaug, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, and Mother Teresa.
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“Malala has shown many of the virtues that we talk about so much here at St. Mark’s,” said Andrew Jin ’25. “She is a brave person who sets an example for all children and adults alike: fight peacefully for the rights of education and for all basic rights. We must learn from her and do our best to make the world a better place.”
Growing up in a rural area of Pakistan where girls were banned from attending school, Malala became an international symbol for human rights advocacy after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban. Since recovering, she has become a major advocate for education and women’s rights around the world. In 2014, Malala was announced as the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Malala will be the tenth member of the Lower School Leadership Wall, joining George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Harriet Tubman, Norman Borlaug, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, and Mother Teresa.
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