Pres-1 Learning Wisdom and the African World Experience

La Brea Hill
Freshman Seminar
Mondays 12:10-1:00


Learning Wisdom and the African World Experience, enables students to understand African deep thoughts. The main concept of the lecture was to promote the intellectual abilities of our African ancestors and to take in what we have learned from our ancestors (whether it had been passed down from classical or medieval ages), and use it today. The basis of the lecture was to understand our roots of intelligence and gain wisdom about our African culture. Throughout the lecture we discussed African contributions to our learning communities in which we were encouraged to pass on. Some of the African traditions and techniques are still seen across the world today. The lecture also inspires us to research our lineage of African traditions and teachings, so that we would not forget them or be “mis-educate” (a term used in the lecture). The overall lecture inspires me as a student and an African American to seek more information about my African roots and become familiar with African education. It is very often that African teachings and traditions are mis-represented, stepped over, or forgotten. The Ideas were stolen by Europeans and made into something else. Learning Wisdom and the African Experience, means to understand the African teachings and the genealogy in which it was passed down today. Although some of the teachings became lost and mixed within European culture, we can still build healthy communities where students can be educated in about African studies, especially African American students.