Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory SchoolingAfter over 100 years of mandatory schooling in the U. S., literacy rates have dropped, families are fragmented, learning disabilities are skyrocketing, and children and youth are increasingly disaffected. Thirty years of teaching in the public school system led John Taylor Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling is to blame, accomplishing little but to teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine.

finally making the great Muslim jurist Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi’s seminal work available to a wider audience

both Muslim and non-Muslim

We tell our children that one day we will have to stand before God and answer for what we have done or neglected to do

dedicated to Benedict of Tyre

Rose Water & Orange Blossoms

There is no way to assess these claims unless we have at least some knowledge of the Qur’an

The Trivium refers to the three liberal arts considered in classical Greece to be the pillars of critical thought: grammar

and Latin philosophy

on Their Principles

" the daughter of a house servant whom he mentored

In Professor Rahman's view the intellectual and therefore the social development of Islam has been impeded and distorted by two interrelated errors

suitable also in statutory and constitutional interpretation