The Study Room

In the prologue of the book The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, Jesse Wise wrote :-

The first day I taught my 3 child at home , I cleaned up the playroom and set up 3 desks . I hung an American flag at the from of the room and led them in Pledge of Allegiance . I was shaking in nervousness.

OK I don’t have any Malaysian flag to hang and don’t even have a clue what in the world Pledge of Allegiance is [until I searched the Wikipedia] but I was so inspired by Susan’s way of educating her children and then finally concluded that seeking knowledge indeed is a serious business — so recently me and my wife decided [ I wish we still have a maid!] to convert our [messy] living room into a study room instead.

Now all the books, desk , computers and my lab [my 2x2620 Cisco routers, mini-itx , EEE-PC,1-wire stuff] are located in the same room. It is just the beginning ..

The kids table

Note: Home schooling is so popular in the west — I always envied the idea of having my very own curricula of education for my children [of course with some proven methodology] . Susan & Jesse’s book mentioned above followed the classical education model of homeschooling — with grammar,logic,rhetoric,Latin and Western Civilization [Duh! being an engineer all those subject except logic had always been my lowest priority!] . I just wished there is such a detail guide for Muslims [perhaps written by Seyyed Hossein Nasr or Hamza Yusuf or they existed and I just missed them?] . Don’t you think Arabic would be a richer language+ the caligraphy is a beautiful art compared to Latin and the Islamic Civilization would be more worthy of learning? Interesting ? Check this example .

My messy corner

Ummi’s the white wizard corner.

The books

5 Responses to “The Study Room”

1. Akram says:

   May 17, 2008 at 2:06 am

   wow, nice setup bro.i wish i have my own room to make a study room/labs at my home like this, maybe when i buy a bigger house kot.
2. rizal says:

   May 18, 2008 at 12:22 am

   It just a room — dah lama plan nak buat tapi terbengkalai so children dah growing up +we need a room to do some “serious” study – so we think we should do less on entertainment and focus on ilm..end up the living room converted to be a reading room instead. Sekarang dok merangkak2 belajar bahasa Arab, I think my son will learn faster than me.
3. Akram says:

   May 22, 2008 at 9:15 pm

   bro, nak tanya, ada ke dulu beli HP 9000 server utk hp-ux? kalau ada, kat mana beli? used pun xpe. kalau baru punya server brape harga ek sekarang? thanks
4. rizal says:

   May 22, 2008 at 10:49 pm

   Tak pernah beli — kalau ada cari la kat lelong.com.my . Nak buat apa beli .. HP-UX tak canggih mana pun macam other UNIX boxes je. Not worth buying.. Cuba cari kat internet rasanya ada online free access — si Munir tu tak pernah pegang HP-UX pun rasanya hehe tapi dapat gak keja HP.
5. Akram says:

   May 24, 2008 at 9:32 am

   hehe, saja ja nak usha2, anyway, saya guna test drive hp jek. memang sama je sebab sysV gak tapi saja nak biasakan main2. mana la tau lepas ni dpt keje manage hp-ux plak hehe, solaris bleh install dalam vmware jek. yep, munir pun skang dah nak join bro kat nsn, hehe.