My father used to say the people of Swat and the teachers would continue to educate our children until the last room, the last teacher and the last student was alive. My parents never once suggested I should withdraw from school, ever. Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us.
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (ed. Little, Brown, 2013) - ISBN: 9780316322416