The youngest-ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize has turned down hundreds of interviews to focus on schoolwork.
Is anyone
really surprised?
Teenage
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai received straight-A’s in her General
Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations, the Daily Pakistan
reports. The GCSE’s are standardized subject tests taken by secondary school
students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The scores influence a
test-taker’s future educational pursuits or professional prospects.
Yousafzai’s
father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, tweeted his daughter’s grades shortly after they
were released Thursday:
Passing
grades range from A* (the highest grade, similar to an American A-plus) to “F,”
while a failing mark is a “U.”
The
Pakistani 18-year-old attends a private girls’ school in Birmingham, England.
Her family has lived in the city since Yousafzai was transferred to a Birmingham
hospital following a 2012 attack by a Taliban gunman in her home country. When
Yousafzai -- who had been an outspoken advocate for girls’ education for
several years -- was riding a bus home from school, a group of men boarded the
vehicle and asked for her specifically. One man then shot her in the head.
After her
recovery, she started the Malala Fund, a nonprofit devoted to girls’ education
worldwide. She also won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, becoming the youngest
Nobel laureate in history.
On top of
her other achievements, she’s managed to prioritize schoolwork, turning down
hundreds of interviews and speaking engagements in order to study, according to
The Guardian.
The
Pakistan-based Express Tribune wrote that Yousafzai has “made the country proud
once again.”
Courtesy:huffingtonpost.com
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