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To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. The language of the name tells us much about our nationality, native tongue, culture, history and a wide range of things about our human social function and origin.

Large numbers of our youth end up it detention facilities, strung-out on drugs or dead in the struggle to manage this infection ot not knowing how to become adults. This is why the primary lesson of education is love. The kind of influence that proper- ly educated qkbar seek is not the ability to exploit people by enforcing your agenda on them.
The discovery of the use of fire transformed human beings from that gen- eration forward. Dimitro Dunn rated it it was amazing Mar 18, There is also recognition that in the process of human competi- tion for limited resources and preserving ourselves, we must ultimately seek to gain greater knowledge than our competitors.
This vision lifts up the highest possible human goals for the com- munity. All men are not alike and all women or not alike. Our humanity is defined and naom by the development of knowledge and particularly self-knowl- edge.
Know Thyself by Na’im Akbar
He feels very strongly that truly relevant ideas should be available to as wide an audience as possible in order that they may study these ideas and apply them to their lives and to their communities. I have found this concept of D Woodson’s to be fundamental as one begins to discuss the need for an alternate way of thinking. One component of that vision would have to be the specific rise and empowerment of our people. Every mighty civilization devotes considerable energy to the process of insuring their continuity.
In addition to the moral teachings that emerge from the concept of the soul as the core of the self, the self-concept that is taught takes on a different form.
The coop- eration of Africans with their own exploitation is a consequence of this tribal men- tality of self-rejection that has been learned from these centuries of human exploitation by non-African opportunists. In order to main- tain competence, it is necessary that each generation should know about its histo- ry of competence that assures them they do have the capability to achieve. This does not deny the relevance of the kind of political and economic exploitation that continues to be executed by invaders.
It is for this reason that the strong cry for an Afrocentric education has gone up from the most gifted educators within the African-American community. Influencing the Physical Environment Education is the instrument that should equip people to gain control over the physical resources of the environment.
KNOW THYSELF, by Na’im Akbar, Forward by Dr. Asa G. Hilliard, III
This difference in Western and African science has been discussed in two of my earlier publications: The memory may be kept alive through simple rituals such as main- taining an ancestral w knwo all in the house where pictures of personal ancestors are kept.
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In addition to the bringing forth of identity and thuself mitting the legacy of competence, education must also transmit many of the acquired immunities that have been learned by earlier generations and their expo- sure to a variety of intellectual and social diseases. We are taught the great nobility ot the wars that have been fought to preserve that individual freedom, both for cit- izens of the U.
If the end result of education is only to compete for a job rather than to negotiate for influence then that education has been ineffective. The kind of transpersonal sharing that activates this collective hurt goes considerably beyond the recitation of information about slavery and the hurt of aakbar experience.
Know Thyself
Consciousness is a valued human asset and every people seek ways to enhance their knowledge — particularly their self-knowledge. Hilliard, III to your wish list.

In addition akhar rituals that reenact the hurt of the ancestors, we most have rituals that celebrate and reenact accomplishments of the ancestors. People give greater autonomous power to their bodies than they attribute to the spirits or lives thysdlf inhabit those bodies.
An example would be slavery and racism. It is important for Africans and all people to realize that the earliest recorded civilizations were founded and developed by native African people. It is for this reason that the earliest studies of the heavenly bodies were called Astrology rather than Astronomy since the Ancients fully appreciated the relationship between the patterns of nature and certain patterns in human behavior.
Xkbar years ago, I wrote a very’ popular little pamphlet entitled Froi Miseducation to Education.
