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Language, if you have had any interest or curiosity about learning Arabic, whatever level you are, then this might be beneficial for you.

When somebody says, I want to build a house, and you say, okay, well, let's talk about the land, let's talk about the foundation, let's talk about the concrete, the steel, the wood,

the plumbing, the electricity, and constructing a house as an entire process.

And some parts of that process are under the ground, some parts of it are over the ground, and you need different specializations before you can get to a house.

But somebody says, no, no, don't give me all these details. Just tell me how I can get a house. How do I build a house?

No, then you're not understanding the problem. The problem is it's huge, it's a big project, and it's made up of many parts.

I'm giving you this analogy because I want you to understand, I've been in the Arabic teaching space for a long time.

I've been teaching Arabic for about 25 years, and studying Arabic also for about 25 years. I'm still studying Arabic.

And sometimes you get, because we're in the age of quick products, like you say, you lose 10 pounds in five days, and learn Arabic in just these four hours.

We get all this kind of gimmicky stuff. We're so used to that, so we want something quick, quick, quick, and I just want to know it.

I was sitting here in Texas, this is an Irving. I was sitting at a restaurant, and just minding my own business, eating my biryani.

I was just like a normal person. Somebody came up to me and you teach Arabic, right? I was like, yeah.

So you're guaranteeing that if I take your Arabic program, I will understand the whole Quran.

I was like, huh. So when did you go to university? And he said, yeah, I was like, so when you went to the, before you went to the university,

did you go to your professors and say, so you're guaranteeing that if I take your program, I will become the top accountant.

Like the idea is you're not buying a shampoo, dude. You're getting an education.

And when you get an education, 90% of the work has to be done by you.

The teacher is just there to say, turn this way, pick this up, move that way. He's just guiding you.

But the work is not being done by the teacher. The work is actually being done by the student.

But because we have become like impressed with consumer mentality, we've even started looking at education the same way we look at products.

Right. We've got that consumer mentality, even in education.

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