Filipinos have all heard the lecture - from their parents, their grandparents and from their relatives - about the importance of going to school.
Education is the greatest tool to rise above poverty, but to 16-year-old Malala Yousafzai, it is also a platform for peace.
In this short interview, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and global ambassador for children's rights, Yousafzai, astonishes interviewer Jon Stewart, with an answer wise beyond her years.
On the question, how did she react when she found out that the Taliban wanted to kill here, this was her response:
I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said ‘if he comes, what would you do Malala?’ then I would reply to myself, ‘Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.’
But then I said ‘if you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.’
Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that ‘I even want education for your children as well,’ and I will tell him, ‘that’s what I want to tell you, now do what you want.’
View the video here.