John Taylor Gatto on Schooling

Is the modern schooling system producing ‘whole’ human beings??
Watch the video

Muslims in the US turn to homeschooling

American Muslims turning to home schooling. Read

Television and consumption

This is not another one of my rants on television, this actually is evidence to support my previous posts. It is taken from the website of one of the top journals of consumption.
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: Does Television Make Us More Materialistic?
by L. J. Shrum
University of Texas at San Antonio
James E. Burroughs
University of [...]

Advice by Imam Ghazali on bringing up your child

“Exposition of the Method of Bringing Up Children from Earliest Childhood, Teaching Them Good Behaviour and Refining Their Character.”Excerpt from Imam al-Ghazali’s Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya `Ulum al-Deen)
Translators note: Praise be to Allah, and peace upon His Beloved.
There is a conspicuous paucity of material available in English that provides sound Islamic [...]

Some articles on Education, Technology and Community

These are some interesting articles I have read on the topics mentioned above.
On Education
On Technology and community
And Imam Zaid on what we should be teaching our children: Article

Aitchison and random stuff

The few of you who do visit this blog must be wondering about the lukewarm posts, you need not worry, I am back.
I will celebrate my return to form with another Aitchison bashing: I love it, I hate it, it is a part of me and I must lash out at this part of me [...]

But Television is educational …

Please forgive the harshness in my tone; I have to say this, because softer words have not worked thus far. Please all of you out there who think TV is educational, stop saying this, it makes you look quite ordinary. You belie your intelligence by constantly repeating this mantra, who are you trying to convince??
Honestly, [...]

My kind of education

This is an article from http://www.thewesternmuslim.com It is very well written, especially, for someone who finds home schooling an outrageous idea…
Honestly, I am all for homeschooling.
A Beginner‘s Class
By Anam Majeed
January 1, 2008
Inspired by the current fad of absurd reality shows, I thought I had come up with a truly novel idea. Suppose [...]

Being a real Man-Yahya Birt

Tony Montana, 2Pac, 50 cents and other pseudo men are the role models for most of the young men today, not just in the West but also in traditional Muslim countries. This article is an interesting analysis of the MTV version of Masculinity and the Islamic concept of a REAL MAN.
http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/misc/drugs.htm

Rites of Passage

I must admit, with mixed feelings that, I am an Aitchisonian. I have recently held that Aitchison College, hampered my intellectual growth, but it is not just this school, but all schools in Pakistan to this day are adept at stunting intellectual curiosity. In my opinion they are assembly lines for the production of [...]