25/08/2025 – 14:54
Today I asked Home Tutor Provider for a tuition job. The description was simple: Class 7 student, English version, 5 days a week, subjects—Math, Science, English. Male tutor, preferably from a public university.
No problem for me, I fit the description. After getting the guardian’s number, I called him.
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Assalamu
Alaikum, I was asked to call for tuition from Home Tutor Provider.
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Yes,
yes, yes, where are you?
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I’m
in university, my class is going on now.
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Which
university are you in?
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I
am in __ university.
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Which
subject do you study?
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I’m
studying __ subject.
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Which
year?
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I’m
in __ year, uncle.
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Where
is your house?
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My
house is __.
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So,
a boy named Zubair from your university came… he couldn’t even solve a single
math problem of class 7.
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Uncle,
class 7 math doesn’t depend on the university.
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Yes,
okay. But I already told Home Tutor Provider not to send students from private
universities. I asked for only good students from public universities.
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Okay,
uncle.
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I
don’t mean disrespect, but that Zubair came two days ago for a demo. He sat for
two hours and couldn’t solve two math problems.
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Yes,
uncle. But class 7 math doesn’t depend on whether it’s a public or private
university student. It depends on the person. Thank You, Bye!
That was the call.
Now, I have two problems here.
First with Zubair himself. Brother, if you can’t handle class 7 math, why even go for the tuition? I’m a student too, and I know exactly what I can and cannot do. If I see a tuition job where I don’t fit, I won’t even look twice at it. You should’ve known your limits too. Instead, you went and dragged your own name, and even your university’s name, through the mud. And seriously, which class 7 math takes 2 hours to solve?
Second with uncle, the guardian. A father is a child’s second teacher (the first is always the mother). But just like a father can’t teach everything a mother can, and a mother can’t teach everything a father can, the same goes for teachers. A teacher—whether professional or still a student—can teach things that neither parents can. If you could teach your kid everything yourself, why hire a tutor? Why send them to school?
And here’s the point: just as no teacher has the right to question if a parent is fulfilling their fatherhood or motherhood properly, no guardian has the right to test a teacher and ask, “Can you do this? Can you do that?” If they are teaching, it means they can. No one is all-knowing. Every teacher checks the lesson before the next class. Even most parents fail when raising their first child—because they don’t know what to expect. But by the second child, they get better, because they’ve already seen an example with the first.
A university doesn’t decide whether a student is good or bad. The student decides that themselves. A university’s quality depends on its curriculum and teachers, not just its name. And honestly, we’ve all read since childhood: “An evil person, even if learned, should be avoided.” Why mention that? Because until now, I haven’t seen a news headline where a private university student killed another student inside campus. Public universities don’t automatically guarantee “good students.” During admission, I saw many average students also getting into public. Nobody highlights that. Nobody talks about it. Because in our society, exception is not an example.
At the end of the day, it’s not the name of the university that proves our worth—it’s the honesty we carry in what we can and cannot do.
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