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The Effects Of Euro-Centric Education in Afrikans
Since the beginning of time, every culture has been involved in some form of education. By definition, that means you can’t give everyone the same education because not everyone has the same set of problems.
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Since the beginning of time, every culture has been involved in some form of education. By definition, that means you can’t give everyone the same education because not everyone has the same set of problems.
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The so-called standard education is basically Euro-centric education and it’s been used to reshape and/or hypnotise the Afrikan's consciousness. How do you explain the fact that Afrika is rich in fertile land and natural resources yet it is considered poor? And, we believe it.
Euro-centric education has been used to blind or hypnotise the Afrikan. To make the point, here’s an excerpt from a draft of a paper called Timeless Minds.
“When I wake you, the past will be gone,” Dr Bernard Aaronson.... told a deeply hypnotised college student.
“When I wake you, the past will be gone,” Dr Bernard Aaronson.... told a deeply hypnotised college student.
When the posthypnotic suggestion took hold, the student became drowsy and infantile, losing both memory and the powers of speech. Later he reported a vague sense of meaninglessness. The young man without a past was one of ten college students who took part in an unusual...
... experiment with psychological time warp. Aaronson gave some subjects posthypnotic suggestions that eliminated their past, present, or future; he gave others a vastly expanded past, present, or future. The consequences were profound.
With no future, people felt a loss of identity and a euphoric, mystical sensation, free of both anxiety and motivation. One student found himself in a “boundless, immanent present.” Expanding the future, on the other hand, cancelled all fear of death and induced serenity...
...contemplation, and a feeling of self-fulfilment.
Being robbed of a past brought on a semi-infantile, torpid state, and students with a dilated past became egocentric and inhibited.
Cancelling the present was the most disturbing, however. One subject turned catatonic;
Being robbed of a past brought on a semi-infantile, torpid state, and students with a dilated past became egocentric and inhibited.
Cancelling the present was the most disturbing, however. One subject turned catatonic;
others became severely depressed and almost schizophrenic. Stopping subjective time altogether produced an eerie sensation of death. “The world moves on, but I don’t,” one student observed.
Euro-centric education focuses on Europe and by definition omits Afrika's glorious history this creating an infantile consciousness.
Go back to the excerpt, can you draw parallel lines between the results of robbing someone of a past and what we see in some of our communities?
Go back to the excerpt, can you draw parallel lines between the results of robbing someone of a past and what we see in some of our communities?
Afro-centred education is a necessity and overdue. If we are to reshape the consciousness of our people, we need to change our curriculum TODAY.
