Discuss african and european influences on general education


Assignment task: Read the passage and answer the question that follows. African and European Influences on General Education When examining the table of contents in Bertrand Russell's influential text The History of Western Philosophy, one may notice that the first 29 chapters are devoted to Greece, Greek thinkers, and/or Greek culture. Chapter 30 then moves on to the Roman Empire's impact on Western civilization and culture (Russell, 1945). Such thinking espouses those intellectual principles were torches passed from Greece to the empires of Rome, Britain, and America. Later in the 20th century, however, scholars such as Basil Davidson and Martin Bernal began pointing out that the lineage of Western Civilization predates Greece to Africa and Ancient Egypt. In the context of liberal education, writing, poetry, and mathematics were prioritized in Egyptian education well before Greek civilization existed. Based on the last paragraph, what is reasonable to conclude about the work of Bernal and Davidson? They demonstrated that the Greeks and Romans had no impact on Western Civilization. They demonstrated that poetry was invented in Egypt. They demonstrated Greek civilization, and therefore Western Civilization, was deeply influenced by Ancient Egypt. They demonstrated that music was the key to success in the 20 th

 

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