When we look around us in our society, we will see a number of examples when children were told: “If you will get education, you will lead a satisfied life, get a good job, have a bright future, have a big car, have luxury, and nothing else! The child did BA, MA, MPhil and sometimes even after doing PhD, the job he got was not enough to fulfill his basic expenditures even the household bills.
The fact you are made to recognize is that there are two levels of education at present. The first is the education acquired by the child of poor and other which is affordable for rich only. The education of the poor can give them everything that their parents dream of and show them if there is a divine grace, otherwise they do not get anything except depression.
What can you do after doing MA from any government university? Whatever it takes and wherever it takes, how much will the salary be? Will they be able to run a household in it? Yes, just like ninety-five percent of Pakistanis do.
The rich man’s child will get a full English education here and will go to a world-class university in the US or UK to put the final stamp on it. Most of them will get a job there, those who land here will have their parents, uncles, and aunts already arranged for them to get a seat.
They will go straight to the head of finance, HR head, head of communication department or any other such seat where they can sit and listen to presentations from people fifty years younger than them and make their own decision and move forward with whatever they like.
It is not only what happening only here but this is the rule of the world. The highest level education can earn strong recommendation. Otherwise, only a beautiful coincidence can get you the job of your dreams, or after twenty or twenty-five years of grinding, when the desire is gone, the money to buy things starts coming.
Where will the 20 best years of life, spent to get indigenous degrees will come from? When you quote examples of CSS students, an expert economist, a note printing teacher, a half-earning writer, fifteen to twenty successful TV anchors, two to three hundred top bankers. How many CSS people will there be? Ten thousand out of 250 million? Twenty thousand? How many of them will there be who studied in Urdu medium and government institutions all their lives and then reached a good earning seat? Dear readers, it doesn’t happen like that.
Job seekers don’t offered jobs on a platter and similarly, ordinary children who want jobs are not capable enough to go straight to a good place and get a respectable, high-paying job.
What is the solution to this? The first solution is to inculcate in the child’s mind that son, start any work of yours along with studies. Do anything. Go and sit in a cloth seller’s shop, do a part-time job for free in a motorcycle workshop, don’t take money, just learn the work, if you have nothing, get experience in running a grocery store, give duty to a cart seller so that you understand the dynamics of selling fruits or vegetables, understand the science of milk and yogurt work, learn to fix computers or mobile phones, learn to work on vehicles, do anything, learn enough so that you can start your own work tomorrow.
Instead of expensive fashion designing, inculcate your girls to work with lady tailors, acquire low cost beauty parlor courses, learn to work online, learn property dealing, learn showroom work, if you come to cook food at home, think of a business of sending them to offices at lunchtime, design clothes and sell them, and if you have nothing, learn driving, Uber, Careem also pay some money. Why do all this? I swear to God, a child who has done an ordinary BA, MA is never able to fit into any good place in this era of competition.
Ordinary student can’t be held accountable for this but the problem is the highest standards of education are set. At least the course books have not taught me anything till today. I remember the moon, my land, my flowers, my homeland. I remember one-class shee by Sara Khan, hee by Hadi, shee by Tall, Hadi by Short. I remember Dus Tak Pahare Hain, I remember the difficult poetry of Ghalib and Minai, I remember Mr. Chips’ novel, I remember Qanun Takleel Afada Mukhattam, Zuzaaf Aql and Ad Azam. But can all this knowledge be helpful for me to get noteworthy job in which you can fulfill the necessary requirements of your home? When a student comes after studying the latest courses of Oxford and Cambridge, why would anyone look for a candidate who acquired knowledge from an Urdu medium government institution?
That’s why, you must gift him a skill before his self-respect dies. Ask an electrician, Mashallah, how much money he earns in a season and then put your mind in order.
One answer is that a child will become a good person by being educated. What makes a good person? A civilized person? A cultured person? Sorry! Course books do not make them that way. That work is either done through home training or as a result of just reading literature, a person becomes a little more discerning.
What about discerning, in fact, literature makes a person timid. Instead of doing anything, he remains confused in its philosophies, he does not remain practical. Are illiterate people not good people? And do you mean by a good person only a poor person or a person who has the ability to earn a lot of money? After all, a good person should also be financially satisfied, right?
So my dear, BA, MA should definitely be done for children, but instill in their minds that they should do their own work. Do anything. Sell needles, threads and buttons or sell meat in a butcher shop. Continue getting education along with learning practical skills. No work is bad other than sitting indolent and being depressed.
