In an often humorous and gently self-deprecating speech, she noted that she wanted world peace but it was something she and her brothers were still working on. Malala recalled loving school so much as a child that she and her classmates decorated their hands with mathematical formulas and equations instead of flowers.
“We would sit there with big dreams in our eyes. We wanted to make our parents proud and prove that we could also excel in our studies and reach our goals which some people only think boys can,” she said.