Role Models for the Students of IIS School - Dr Zakir Naik
Dr. Zakir Naik discusses how IIS School cultivates Islamic scholars as role models for students rather than pop stars or film actors. He highlights the school's approach to teaching public speaking from age four, emphasizing that presentation skills account for 93% of a speech's impact.
Summary
Dr. Zakir Naik begins by contrasting IIS School's annual day performances with those of typical schools. While most schools feature fancy dress imitating celebrities like Michael Jackson or Sunil Gavaskar, IIS students imitate Islamic figures such as Sheikh Sudais and Sheikh Ahmed Deedat, reflecting the school's distinct values.
He emphasizes that the role models cultivated at IIS are not pop stars, singers, or film actors, but rather Islamic scholars and speakers like Sheikh Sudais, Sheikh Ahmed Deedat, and Brother Bilal Philips. He frames this as a deliberate effort to shape children's aspirations from a young age.
Dr. Naik then highlights the school's public speaking program, which begins as early as Junior KG (around age four). Students are trained to speak at microphones and learn technical aspects of public speaking, including microphone distance, vocal modulation, gestures, and eye contact. He laments that most speakers lack these foundational skills.
He concludes with a striking statistic: the actual content of a speech accounts for only 7% of its impact, while presentation skills account for the remaining 93%, underscoring the school's strong emphasis on communication training.
Key Insights
- Dr. Zakir Naik argues that IIS School students imitate Islamic scholars like Sheikh Sudais and Sheikh Ahmed Deedat in performances, rather than pop stars or celebrities, reflecting the school's intentional shaping of children's role models.
- Dr. Naik explicitly identifies Sheikh Sudais, Sheikh Ahmed Deedat, and Brother Bilal Philips as the appropriate role models for Muslim children, contrasting them with pop singers and film actors.
- Dr. Naik claims that IIS School teaches public speaking to children starting from Junior KG, meaning from approximately four years of age, making it one of the earliest educational focuses at the school.
- Dr. Naik criticizes most speakers for lacking basic public speaking techniques, specifically citing microphone distance, vocal modulation, gestures, and eye contact as commonly neglected skills.
- Dr. Naik asserts that the content of a speech carries only 7% of its impact, while presentation skills account for 93%, using this statistic to justify the school's heavy emphasis on communication training.
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[0:00] And if you see the annual day that we have, in the annual day when we have skits, normally most of the other schools their fancy dress where a person maybe he may dress up like Michael Jackson or may dress up like maybe Sunil Gavaskar or whatever it is. Here in our concert mashallah one person becomes he imitates Sheikh Sudais. One like Sheikh Ahmed Deedat. You know, in this way mashallah we find that the role models of our children [0:30] the present age role models for our children they are not these pop stars and pop singers and film actors. They are like Sheikh Sudais, like Sheikh Ahmed Deedat, Brother Bilal Philips. So here we find…
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