Learn English Malala Yousafzai and Emma Watson A Message Of Inspiration with Big Subtitles
it’s an honor to be joined by Malala
yousufzai hello Malala I know first I
just wanted to say how wonderful I
thought the film was and that you were
just my absolute heroes so this is this
is some glad to see you oh that’s really
kind thank you I think that the best
part of the film for me was that you got
to see what obviously made you so
extraordinary but more importantly
ordinary which shows that anyone can
encourage change and I just thought that
was a wonderful message from the film do
you have a sense of a tangible goal that
you would like the Malala fund to reach
with in your lifetime
so it’s my simple dream and very
straightforward I want to see every
child to get quality education and in
order to make sure that that dream comes
true we have to work hard and we have to
take action and that’s why through the
Malala fund we are working each and
every day and now the Sustainable
Development Goals are going to be set up
so we are raising our voice saying that
not just primary education should be
focused on but both primary and
secondary education should be available
to every child and this has been my
mission and I will make it come true
I’ll try my best
how does it feel to have your story
shown on film and screen to thousands of
young people today as part of the anti
film festival it’s quite interesting
what I don’t like seeing myself on TV or
I can’t even hear my voice so but once
the film was made and I watched it it
really inspired me the way Davis
Guggenheim the director of the film has
delivered our story through animation
and spread the message of Education
across the world and it was his
commitment to this call that led to this
the making of this movie and it covers
as you have seen it it covers like the
family story and how we stood up for the
right to education at that hard time of
terrorism in Swat Valley
so hopefully the message will spread and
it will inspire more people to come
together and join the campaign that we
are having through the Malala fund
hashtag with Malala and to come together
and do something it’s not just that you
watch the film but you do something and
I want this movie not just to be a movie
but a movement
that’s amazing and I thought that the
animation in the film was so beautiful
and I loved the mythology behind it and
it just really it was so beautifully
done and so well told and I completely
agree with you I think it’s great that
people are watching the film and it’s
wonderful but it’s great that you want
people to really do something and take
action as well and and that this is
about a movement not just a film I think
it’s amazing that it’s it’s going so far
beyond that a part of the film that
really touched me was how big of a role
you know your father has played in your
life and and in the film how would you
respond to anyone who said that you know
men can’t be feminists or shouldn’t be
campaigning for for girls riots
well my father he has set an example to
all parents in all male on all men that
if we want equality if we want equal
rights for women then we have to men
have to step forward because if we if we
complain that women don’t get equality
equal rights it’s mean like all the
things are taken by men so they need to
they need to step back and say we want
we are here to support so it can’t
happen the main are just thinking is
just a few women’s job war crazy
feminists and they’re gonna change it
and things are going to be changed soon
it’s not going to happen like this we
all have to work together that’s how
change will come and this is the the
role that my father has taken he
believes in women’s rights he believes
in equality and he calls himself
feminists but interestingly this word
feminism it has been a very tricky word
and I hope when I heard it the first
time I was heard it in in like I heard
some negative responses and some
positive ones
and I hesitated in saying am i a
feminist or not and then after hearing
your speech when you said if not now
when
if not me who I decided that there is no
way and there is nothing wrong by
calling yourself a feminist so I am a
feminist and we all should be feminists
because feminism is another word for
equality Wow I’m sorry to hear that
that’s absolutely amazing and
I agree with you it’s um it’s become
this really difficult word but I think
it’s it’s wonderful when people do
embrace it because it should be
synonymous with the quality people have
forgotten its definition they really
really have so that’s wonderful wow I’m
so moved to hear that well it’s kind of
a similar question but what would you
say to people who argue that religion
and educating women are at odds I
thought again it was so wonderful in the
film to show how important your faith
and your spirituality you were in giving
you strength to do the work that you do
I just thought that was such a wonderful
part of the film but what would you say
to people that you know the use
Scripture to say that women shouldn’t be
educated or that argue that educating
women is a Western concept or a Western
idea
I think people fail to understand
religious beliefs especially when it
comes to Islam they have failed to
understand that really Islam the word
Islam means peace
so never fail to understand that the
very first word of the Holy Quran was
Achra which means read it wasn’t that
only male should read it and not female
it was it was about reading it was about
learning and getting knowledge
so in essence of you believe that God
has sent you to this earth you are there
to gain knowledge to learn and to
discover more and this is what what we
are here for and so people have just
misinterpreted the religion and for me
it’s always a religion of peace which is
for the goodness and of whole humanity
and it’s for the brotherhood kindness
patience love for each other and I don’t
know why like people just go crazy and
kill each other and start terrorism just
live a better life and be kind why is it
so hard to love each other that’s
amazing and yes I completely in terms of
brothers it’s different because I have
two brothers and we are never good to
each other
that’s a separate case but overall I can
relate I actually have brothers there’s
a lot of my thing that going on he’s not
very peaceful yeah
tough for the parents I was wondering
are you excited to see Hillary Clinton
a woman running for president in the
u.s. well I don’t really have any views
about like I don’t really know I haven’t
really decided on which political side I
am in America I know but I really want
I really think America needs a woman
president that’s what I think I agree
with this I agree with this very trivial
question compared to some of the others
but I had to ask that really really
bright pink color that you wear it’s one
of my absolute favorite colors and I see
you with it a lot and I wondered if it
was lucky or if it had any sort of
special meaning to you I don’t know this
but I have always liked pink color and
when I was going to the UN speech I wore
pink that day I don’t know why and so
yes and now the film is all the origin
things yeah
pink is everywhere yeah it’s good thing
I feel it’s nice because I get the
impression that you’re someone who is
generally sort of you know shy
struggling with all of the attention
that’s been thrust on her but I thought
it was wonderful that you chosen this
this bright color which meant that you
wanted to be seen and and you know and
you wanted to spread your message in
spite of that and I thought that was
wonderful
thank you as a big book fan I have to
ask you what was your last favorite book
was there anything that you read in the
last year that you just fell in love
with right now I’m reading a Thousand
Splendid Suns by kind of Husseini and
it’s just beautiful everyone should read
it
it’s a 1:1 book I’ve read this book yeah
it’s an amazing book I just can’t
explain it it’s like the best book read
it curious what the thing you found the
strangest about England compared to
Pakistan well it would be so in our
books we studied that there are four
seasons and in Pakistan we had four
seasons but in the UK I just found there
was one season winter that it was quite
surprising then another surprising thing
was that in the UK people follow traffic
rules yeah it was quite surprising in
our country maybe now in a few cities
people are nice but in the rest of the
country no traffic
rules at all so that was quite
surprising and but then more than that
it’s the love of people and how they
have given so much support and I and I
have never felt like being from another
country it’s just I’ve so many friends
here and all the teachers in my school
they have been supporting me and giving
me like a normal girl and that is what’s
really good and I love it yeah I’m going
to stay here okay I’m glad to hear that
I’m really glad to hear that because I
know you have to deal with being famous
and I was going to ask you well I
sometimes get asks which would be what
you would do if you could be anonymous
for a day and and then it sort of it
stopped me dead in my tracks because I
realized exactly what you would do and
it really struck me you know what you’ve
sacrificed for your ideals and your
dream and this movement and it made me
really emotional actually and so I just
wanted to thank you again for being who
you are and for being so brave so other
than going home is there anything that
you like the idea of doing if you could
be if you had magical powers and you
could be invisible for a day what you’d
do well I haven’t gone back to Pakistan
14 years since their take and I would
love to go back to my country and it’s
just to achieve the goal I have because
sometimes people feel like I’ve got the
Nobel Peace Prize and the book in the
films are released and like there’s
nothing else did I need what people fail
to understand that my goal which is to
see every child going to school hasn’t
been achieved yet and that’s what I want
to see come true and it’s really
important that we come together and we
support each other this is about the
future of all those 66 million girls who
cannot go to school right now it’s it’s
what our future it’s going to affect
every one of us if so many children are
out of school they don’t get education
and they have girls especially they have
potential they can contribute to society
if you are stopping half of the
population not to come forward how can
you think of progress and achievements
so it’s important that we think it’s our
responsibility to participate actively
in bringing change it’s we who can bring
change 66 million girl
is such a huge number it’s such a
massive number to think about that I
can’t go to school at the moment so
those are my questions I know that very
sweetly we have questions from members
of the audience which is brilliant so
I’ll stop taking up all of the time why
is it important for girls and boys to be
treated equally and this is from grace
Dane at Mill primary school in Leicester
I think it’s there to treat everyone as
a human being and just because your
gender is different does not mean that
you should be treated differently and
you should have certain jobs and you
shouldn’t have certain things in your
life that’s like the very you challenge
that very concept of inequality based on
your gender your gender should not be
any it should not create any difficulty
in the choices that you make it’s a very
simple thing like it’s about equality
it’s about feminism it’s about saying
that we’re all human beings why you why
you separate us just because our gender
is different really agree which of your
teachers inspired you the most and this
is from Delano in Manchester I should
say like my father was a teacher and he
inspired me but your parents can be your
teachers and it’s like the first stage
when you start learning but also I love
all my teachers I hear in the school in
the UK and all my teachers in Pakistan
school I just just love one my teachers
I don’t kind of I’m really scared of
teachers yeah okay so let’s say love and
fear both together yeah that’s good if
you could give us 12 13 year olds any
advice what would it be and this is from
Jake in Northern Ireland oh I think an
important thing that you should know at
this stage 12 13 years of age is that
don’t think that you are young and you
can’t do something when I was rewriting
the block for BBC I was just 11 years
old when I started speaking out that was
my age the age which you are 8 so don’t
think that your age can stop you from
going forward as we talk of
Genda as you talk about religion and all
these things it is also one of them so
don’t think you’re young so you don’t
have ideas and your ideas won’t work and
sometimes we just think I’m young so I’m
not at the stage where I can just make a
bigger change and I can explore all the
big big ideas age cannot put a limit to
what you want to do so come forward and
do the things that you want to do don’t
think that one day I will grow up and
I’ll do things don’t wait for the stage
it should be too late yeah now is the
time yes and now is the time ageism is a
is a huge issue actually and every voice
feeling is yes is important are you
enjoying your education these days in
your school in Birmingham and there’s
questions from Alyssa in Cheshire oh yes
I am enjoying my education well there’s
a lot to do right now because I’m doing
a-levels it’s like a sudden change from
GCSE to a levels but the subjects I’m
doing our history economics match and
religious studies and I really like them
so that’s why I’m enjoying it great
choices very serious choices brilliant
how is education for girls in your
country now and that’s from Asha in
Enfield and North East London so the
reality is that the situation is not the
same in every part of the country so for
example in the capital Islamabad in
Pakistan there are girls going to school
but then there are there are there are
many parts in which girls cannot go to
school and about five to six million
children at primary level are out of
school in Pakistan I mean in most of the
data that we mentioned like about the
number of girls who are out of school
there’s no data enough data about the
girls who are away out of the secondary
education because no one really even
counts them the number you hear are just
focused on primary level so that’s also
tragic that we don’t collect the data
that we need which is how many girls
drop school at secondary level and how
many are out of school but in terms of
primary education they’re about like
five to six million children in Pakistan
and it’s it’s really important that we
think of supporting them in education
Pakistan is now right now at a stage of
having
trying to develop strong democracy and
improve and fight against terrorism and
if we forget the education of our next
generation I don’t think we won’t be
able to achieve that progress we need to
educate the future generation and then
they can build a more peaceful and
better Pakistan what would you say to
young people who do not like enjoy or
appreciate school and this is from Miss
Skinner she’s a teacher in Cardiff well
I should tell that like my brothers I
tell them every day that they should
focus on their studies because they
spend their time on Xbox and computers
and sometimes we like we go to school
every day
and it’s for many many years of our life
but in between II forget its importance
and I know its importance because when I
was 11 I was stopped from going to
school and the next day when I woke up
and I just could not go to school and I
could not believe it that for the rest
of my life
I wouldn’t be able to study at all and I
wouldn’t be able to become a doctor or
teacher or anything I liked and that was
the state when I realized that education
is really important for every child
so before you see that stage realize it
now I don’t want you to go through that
situation ever so realize that it’s it’s
for your future it’s for the future of
your country you know where you are
contributing to your society and just
believe in yourselves believe in the
power of Education I think it’s very
easy to take for granted and is actually
a gift
what do your younger brothers think
about your efforts and this is from our
time in London well they’re really
annoying they fight with me all the time
however they they’re sometimes nice and
sometimes they think I’m doing good work
yes well sometimes yes sometimes but
that’s something my brothers are the
same by the way what were your feelings
when you had to speak publicly for the
first time in front of presidents and
prime ministers and that’s from Miriam
in Manchester I think I should say I
feel very scared in in school
speaking in school and but in terms of
meeting presidents and prime minister
and then talking about a cause
it really matters then you have to
forget about getting nervous and the way
you deliver the speech forget all those
things and say what’s in your heart
don’t do not hesitate when I was meeting
the president of Nigeria to talk about
the girls who are abducted by Boko Haram
I said it very clearly that what are you
doing what have you done so far because
three months had passed and the
President had not even met them and then
he announced that he would meet the
parents this is you say it clearly why
to hesitate why - why to stop yourself
and like before it was meeting the
president of America Barack Obama or
anyone I say things very very clearly
because it’s not for me it’s for it’s
for children in their future that’s
great that you see it as something which
isn’t it’s personal obviously but it’s
so much bigger than that and you use the
power and the strength of that to really
you know push away any nerves which is
great how did you find the filmmaking
process and what did you learn from it
from Olivia and East Lothian it was very
long it covered the two years journey of
my life and like going to Jordan and
just be called for the Syrian refugee
children going to Nigeria and Kenya and
giving speeches meeting world leaders
which also tells the story of our family
so this it was a very it was a great
experience working together with Davis
Guggenheim and well I think I didn’t
know what what am I going to see at the
end and the way that he made it was very
beautiful especially the animation
because I was wondering how is he going
to tell the story of my father my mother
in our past and he has done it well what
do you plan to do next to further
promote equality and that’s from Mavis
in Middlesex oh well it’s so as I said I
have this fund the Malala fund and
through that I’m working for education
for equality and to ensure that girls go
to school but like how many schools can
I build I can either build nine ten
schools and it’s all through your
support through your donations that we
will school
then we need our leaders to take action
we need every one of us to come forward
it’s not the just a few NGOs who have to
do this work it’s each and every one of
us who have to come forward and
contribute to it from world leaders to
parents to civil society to everyone
even to you even if you are 11 or 12
don’t think you can’t do it you all have
to come forward and participate in it
and now it’s time that we ask all
governments where the money is spent
we give taxes we expect something from
all governments and now it’s time that
we stand up and look where the money
goes
is it spent on education if not why not
and why are our governments not willing
to help children’s education especially
in conflict zones right now in in Syria
well two million children are now
refugees in they’re out of school and
it’s important that the we raise this at
this point otherwise things won’t change
it will just remain the same voices are
important speaking out and asking
governments to do the right thing super
super super important well we’ve got
through all of the questions that we’ve
been sent which is brilliant so maybe I
will take this moment just to say thank
you again the film is so wonderful and
your story is is is beyond inspiring and
thank you for your time and it’s great
to have you and I think it would be
great if you give a message to all these
children who are listening to us right
now because you are sustained for a
cause that is very important if you want
equality and there would be so many boys
in the audience yes boy is in the
audience specifically I work for a
course called he fishy if you haven’t
signed up yet then that would be
wonderful but we we really need you as
the next generation to extend a hand to
to the girls and the women in your life
and to include them and to make sure
that they can live their lives without
discrimination and that they have access
to the same opportunities that that you
do
and you’re in a unique position you have
a unique opportunity to do that
to support the girls and the women in
your life and if you have the chance
if moments are presented to you do speak
up do you raise your voice your support
could literally change a girl’s life
could change to change someone’s life
and and you know it’s gender equality is
something that will affect your life too
as men and as boys and it’s just an
issue that I believe about so
passionately and and any of your your
help or support is is greatly greatly
appreciated
and thank you so much thank you Malala
thank you thank you