A Comparative Analysis Between the Nile Valley’s Liberal Arts Tradition and the Development of Western Education
William S. Cook
This article is an analysis of the original purpose studying seven liberal arts in context contemporary higher education. Nile Valley theorists ancient Africa tied to conceptualization that all humans are born divinely natured. In order cultivate a learner’s divinity properly, student studied arts. Greek embraced and promoted along Mediterranean Europe. However, Rome’s ascendency eventual collapse created educational void West until Moors reintroduced curricula into Europe during medieval period. Medieval schools featuring eventually incorporated Western cultural trends male superiority, upper class privilege, social inequality, ethnic-group discrimination academic environment. American education institutions followed European model but included racial discrimination, segregation, financial accumulation, which contrasted investigating
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