In response to my essay 'What is Western Education?' a number of respondents on the Nigerian Biomedical and Life Sciences group argued, as was put must pungently by Aminu Shittu, that there is no such phenomenon as Western education because Western scholarship is an adaptation, even at times, an unacknowledged theft, of the achievements of the scholarship of Islamic civilization.
Another respondent on that group wondered if the roots of these streams of scholarship were not even older than Islamic civilization, reaching into Africa.
'What is the role of Africa in the development of modern scholarship?', is a question suggested by this perspective.
I would be pleased if anyone were to help throw light on this question of the pedigree of civilisations, with particular reference to traditions of scholarship.
thanks
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems
"Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge"
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