I read some stuffs about homeschooling – and always admire Susan Wise Bauer idea of classical home education.
You can read the intro here
Classical education depends on a three-part process of training the mind. The early years of school are spent in absorbing facts, systematically laying the foundations for advanced study. In the middle grades, students learn to think through arguments. In the high school years, they learn to express themselves. This classical pattern is called the trivium.
Wow! How inspiring but reading was much easier than implementing it 
I knew that there is better method from the traditional Islamic education system – the madrasah! And recently I found a book which clearly explained the life in a madrasah.
Check this out – a book from Oxford Centre of Islamic Studies about the life in Nadwat Al-Ulama in India. A forgotten and misunderstood education system inherited from the glorious Islamic ages – a must read!
Madrasah Life
A student’s day at Nadwat Al-Ulama
By Mohammed Akram An-Nadwi – Oxford Centre of Islamic Studies
As quoted taken from a book written by MAJOR-GENERAL SIR W. H. SLEEMAN,1788-1856. Resident at the Court of Lucknow, India describing the education in a madrasah.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by William Sleeman
Perhaps there are few communities in the world among whom education is more generally diffused than among Muhammadans in India. He who holds an office worth twenty rupees a month commonly gives his sons an education equal to that of a prime minister. They learn, through the medium of the Arabic and Persian languages, what young men in our colleges learn through those of the Greek and Latin–that is,grammar, rhetoric, and logic. After his seven years of study, the young Muhammadan binds his turban upon a head almost as well filled with the things which appertain to these branches of knowledge as the young man raw from Oxford–he will talk as fluently about Socrates and Aristotle, Plato, and Hippocrates, Galen and Avicenna: (_alias_Sokrat, Aristotalis, Aflatun, Bokrat, Jalinus, and Bu Ali Sena); and,what is much to his advantage in India, the languages in which he has learnt what he knows are those which he most requires through life.
And again I am inspired !
I’ve been busy this year. I had this sudden urge to pursue my dream of having a Master degree — something that have been delayed for so long due to financial reasons+ my lack of confidence of getting the approval from any university due to my poor first degree result. One day in a Malaysian gathering at my aparment, I met this one Prof l. who lived nearby, and he convinced me that I should proceed with it (he was a part time lecturer in OUM) so I was inspired — not looking back (since I have an extra budget which have a strong possibilities of being used for some unnecessary stuffs in life) –so Bismillah .. — and I just applied for a place– first my application was rejected (my fault! I did submit the required forms properly.. yes I do have this problem with forms..) but later was accepted by OUM in February (thanks to the friendly and helpful staffs!) while I was away in Helsinki. So here it goes.. myself with a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering continuing my studies in a new area System (Master in Information Science) .. ok not so new since I’ve been doing it for work.
