Today's Youth and Search for Sustenance

Today's Youth and Search for Sustenance

The moment Allah the Almighty, of His Grace and Blessing, confers the bounty of child on them, parents – especially the educated ones start making plans for their beloved. To achieve these plans, the child’s education process commences. The most critical juncture in this process arrives when the ward reaches the 12th standard (H.S.C.) because it is here that he has to branch out in the field of specialization. The primary concern for the parents is that the child should be sent to a field where his income levels must be high enough to provide him with a comfortable life. To put it simply, ‘Which field will lead to maximum monetary benefits?’ This point is drilled so hard and so frequently in the child’s mind that he starts believing that the only purpose of education is to make money.