Remember getting out of the womb of your mother knowing nothing? Probably not. That was the starting point for all of us. Then, in just 3 to 5 years, we do our most incredible jump. We move from silently exploring our environment to voicing a...
Deschooling mainly refers to leaving the school system to start homeschooling. What I mean by deschooling our minds is to give them a second life outside the school system. For better or worse, schools affect our love for...
Why learning how to learn? When you invest money in a project, it is normal to expect a return. Right? The highest is the return, the better it is. The same with learning. If you invest time, effort, or/and money in your education, you want to...
I’ve always been impressed by the encyclopedic minds of the past- people who had a vast knowledge of diverse subjects. For example, “the renaissance man” Leonardo Da Vinci was not only interested in painting, but also in sculpting, engineering,...
Seeking knowledge is a means of gaining wisdom. Or at least, this is how it should be. We generally associate wisdom with experience and age. The wise is the old man or woman who counsels, guides, or sees what others don’t. Our life would be much better with...
Before diving into the Muslims’ misconceptions about seeking knowledge, let’s see what we can agree upon: 1- Islam encourages us to seek knowledge. 2- Muslims are not knowledge seekers. So the question that imposes...
