This article is especially for children who are free for three months after their matriculation exams, after which they have to go to college. Sometimes it is more than three months. And these parents ask me a lot of questions. This is not a question of today. I have been teaching for the last 25-26 years. I’ll let you know what we used to do when I matriculated. My matriculation was in 1996. I matriculated from Pak Angel School, and after that, I went to the college in front of me in Civil Lines. I did engineering with F.Sc. from there. In the time between, I did not have two active assistants. Well, now, after 26-30 years, times have changed a lot. The world has changed in 30 years. I am here; it is here that technology has come.
along with IT, there is a lot of talk and AI has revolutionized the world, so today’s children have a lot of options. The first thing I am saying is that today’s children have more options than our elders. There are more opportunities to grow. What should be done? First of all, clear this vision of what to do in the future. So if you are very patient, you want to become a doctor, you want to become an engineer, your plan is for a professional degree, then don’t do anything, start your studies straight away. Pre-classes start in every academy and every college.
So join pre-classes, join your pre-medical, pre-engineering classes, and complete at least 30 percent of your course. And if you work with a little passion, you can complete even half of your course. This is my first advice for professionals, but there are a large number of children who are not clear about what they have to do and where they are going. So my advice to them is that today is the age of technology, and in this age of technology, do those degrees, those courses, those short courses that can change your life. Now, where are they and how do they? That is a separate debate; we will talk about it later. First of all, I divided this whole discussion into five or six parts.
The first part is learn digital skills. If you learn any digital skills,
you can earn them online. There is a hard part of it and a soft part of it. In the hard part, let me tell you first. You can learn graphic designing, Canva, learn Photoshop, you can learn video editing, you can learn freelancing, Fiverr, Upwork, and here you can work, learn social media management, learn blogging and SEO work, and all these skills are digital on YouTube. Skills are available; they are also available on Digital Skills.pk, so if you have a little courage on YouTube,
you don’t need to go to a coach, start learning from YouTube. Wherever you need help, grab a senior, keep in touch with those who have already learned, hold their hand and arm, and start learning from them. Let me tell you that from now on, the role of seniors who have completed their matriculation is very important. If you want to go to any field, you should contact a senior who has already completed it, and is already there. I still remember today when I started doing FSC, my senior was Yasir Sahib, you are from the UK, my very dear friend Maledar was also a very good guide. He said, “Yes,
immediately, you have to study physics, go to Naveed Majeed Sahib, study chemistry, go to Mumtaz Sahib or Sanaullah Sahib, and study it. You have to study math, Haji.” Go and read it with Imtiaz Sahib, he is a senior and will give you a very good guide. So, for all those digital skills that I told you about, you can also contact a senior. People ask big questions. Yes, which institution is it? Make an effort yourself. We have recorded the big people and uploaded them to social media. Those who are already there are some academies, some institutions. To give you an example, you can go to Corbett. You can contact PN Vaizla Sahib. He has done a great job. If you search, you will see these skills in Tabata or some other place. You will see such skills that are being done. After that, I request you, secondly, sir, to look at your communication and English language. You can improve your speaking skills. For this, take spoken English classes. For this, give content writing classes. For this, take English grammar classes. You can also learn another language. Older children are like this.
My own friend, who is German, has started learning it. Older children are learning Chinese. Friends are learning German. And this is a plan in Lahore that I have to settle in another country tomorrow. So, spoken English or any specific language is very helpful for you. Well, if you cannot go to any institution, then our foundation has countless videos. Asad Yaqoob Sahib’s excellent videos or his videos that we have made children do here at the foundation. Millions of people have benefited from them. Education is possible. You can also benefit.
The third work that is done is also a little technical work. Yes, this is the work of coding and web development. It includes basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You can do all these things, and to learn this, you can find a teacher, a coach, or a senior. My advice is to go to the place where this work is being done and ask them to give me an internship. I will also learn the work. I will also do two or four more tasks for you.
How many children do we have from Lahore College University every year?
Our daughters come for internships and here they learn the skills of managing social media and digital media from Abid Ayub Sahib. After that, they go for jobs and go back to their university. In the coming days, out of the girls who have come for internships till now, almost 90 percent of them have got jobs. Then the next thing you can do is the work of percent development.
So, read self-help books. Work on your habits. Understand your religion. You can finish the interpretation of the Holy Quran. Find a teacher for self-purification. Take guidance, the foundation has activities every month, and I am inviting you all to
if you want, you can pick up the calendar, if you want to do book reading, Atomic Habit is big, Stephen is big, Rush is big, Dead is big, Seven Habits of Empty Effective Teens, I have read countless books, I had finished local literature in Urdu in Matric, believe me, here is Shahab Ashfaq Ahmed, Asif sir, believe me, Deputy Nazir Ahmed, how much local literature was there that I had read, then you can read local literature, after that there are also international online courses of personal development, just search for them, you will find them, you can also attend them,
Then you can go to some place and do this most wonderful job, someone else’s internship. A few days ago, I sent my son to Karachi, and he spent eighteen days in the office of Vital. It is in the form of an internship, and in the coming days, I want to send it to my friend Indus in Sialkot. The post is that you should join a physical activity. In it, your gym activities are included. You can learn Rubik, you can learn yoga, you can learn tennis, you can learn football, or you can join a cricket academy. So pay attention to your health too. Let me tell you an overall. According to me, a big bookworm, the theta-grown-up type of child does not progress in life. In comparison, a child who is street smart, who has relevant skills, social skills, confidence, and communication skills, makes great progress in life. So this is the best time to join after matriculation.
