When Malala's mother was a child, she unfortunately never received much of an education. In fact, she hadn't even finished one term before she dropped out of school at the age of six. Although Toor Pekai enjoyed being the only girl in a class of boys, she very much envied her girl cousins playing at home. When Toor Pekai decided leave school behind her, her father never seemed to notice, even though he was the one who encouraged her to go to school in the first place.
