15524355 Afrikan Origin of the University

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Afrikan Origin of the UniversityBy Kwaku Person-Lynn, Ph.D.

As world history is being re-written, old conceptsconsidered canon in academia are melting away as new, and/or neglected

or omitted information begins to surface. For instance, ancient Greece has

been credited with achievements created in Afrika before Greece existed.

The university is a worldwide entity, but only a handful knows of its

genesis. Very few are aware that ancient Kemet (called Egypt by the

Greeks) was the intellectual, spiritual, scientific and industrial center for

the world. Ancient Greeces greatest scholars honed their skills and

acquired their knowledge in Kemet (Egypt). A small sample of the students

from ancient Greece who were educated in Kemet were: Thales (so-called

father of philosophy), Hippocrates (so-called father of medicine),

Pythagoras (so-called father of mathematics), including other noted

Greeks: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Democritus, and hundreds of other

scholars from Greece attended Afrikas famous Kemetic (Egyptian) temple-

universities in Ipet Isut (called Karnak by the Arabs) and Waset (called

Thebes by the Greeks; Luxor by the Arabs).
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Dr. Asa Baffour Hilliard, the renowned educational psychologist and

historian tells us that the, Ancient

Kemetic (Egyptian) higher education system was old and grey before the

Greek Heroic age existed, before the city states existed, before Greece as a

nation existed, indeed before the famed Greek scholars existed. The easy

way to show this is to look at Greece and Kemet (Egypt) at 2000 B.C.E.

There was no textbook in Greece at that time, but the Ahmes (Rhind)

Mathematical Papyrus material existed, with problems in geometry and

trigonometry. Wisdom literature was much older than that, such as theTeachings of Ptahotep. Architecture and astronomy are manifest in the

even more ancient pyramids, tombs and temples. In fact, full university

curricula in grammar (MDW NTR, known as the hieroglyphs by the Greeks),

mathematics, sciences, arts, literature of many types, and philosophy as

well. The Greek record itself is full of references to the priority of Kemetic

scholarship, and to it as a source for Greek scholar's study. As Solon was

told by the scholars of Kemet, the Greeks were 'children in the 'mysteries,'

even in the knowledge of the history of Greece itself. Incidentally, Greece

first written literature, The Iliad and The Odyssey, did not appear until

around 800 B.C.E.?

The term of education was 40 years and the curriculum was quite

extensive. The temple-university had a huge library and its faculty, called

teachers of mysteries, were divided into five major departments:

astronomy and astrology; geography; geology; philosophy and theology;

law and communication. Ivan Van Sertima Nile Valley Civilizations. A

student would not major in one discipline, as is today, but would be trained
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in all disciplines. No known Greeks completed the entire term. Pythagoras

lasted 22 years, Plato 13 years, Democritus 5 years.

The concept of education was holistic in nature. The process of education

was not seen primarily as a process of acquiring knowledge. It was seen as

a process of the transformation of the learner who progressed through

successive stages of rebirth to become more godlike. Disciplined study

under the guidance of a master teacher was the single path to becoming a

new person. Asa Baffour Hilliard Nile Valley Civilizations.

The spiritual nature of the instruction was not only commonplace, the

language in which it was taught reflected the same. The medu neter

(defined as divine or sacred language or speech, known as the hieroglyphs

by the Greeks) also had a spiritual character. The symbol for one million

was a man kneeling, arms stretched forward, palms up, praising the

Creator.

Another point of great debate and contention is who were the ancientKamites (Egyptians). Some of the most defining proof was presented by

two of Afrikas greatest scientists: Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop from Senegal, and

his colleague, Dr. Theophile Obenga of the Congo, at the January 1974

UNESCO conference of Egyptologists in Cairo entitled The Peopling of

Ancient Egypt. The report was published in major volumes by UNESCO on

the history of Afrika. Their striking multi-disciplinary approach proved that

the ancient Kamites (Egyptians) were the black inhabitants of Kemet

(defined the land of Black people), though several Egyptologists, then and

now, attempt to disprove their work.

The science of education, the university and library are only a portion ofthe gifts the Nile Valley in Afrika has given to the world. Probably the

greatest gift of all, besides the birth of humanity, was organized societies,

what we today call, civilization.

Dr. Kwaku Person-Lynn is on the faculty at Loyola Marymount University in

African American Studies and instructor for Afrikan World Civilizations

history classes taught in the Leimert Park community.

E-mail: [email protected].

Website: www.drkwaku.com.
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