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 .
