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[QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] [QUOTE] In addition, in Prologue to Prodlus’s Commentaries on Euclid’s Elements, a disciple of Aristotle named Eudemus, who lived in the forth century B.C., confirms: “we shall say, following the general tradition, that the Egyptians were the first to have invented Geometry, (that) Thales, the first Greek to have been in Egypt, brought this theory thereof to Greece” (Obenga, p. 48). . . . . Plato studied at the Temple of Waset for 11 years; Aristotle was there for 11-13 years; Socrates 15 years Euclid stayed for 10-11 years; Pythegoras for 22 yeasrs; Hypocrates studies for 20 years; and the other Greeks who matriculated at Waset included Diodorus, Solon, Thales, Archimides, and Euripides. Indeed, the Greek, St. Clement of Alexandria, once said that if you were to write a book of 1,000 pages, you would not be able to put down the names of all the Greeks who went to Kemet to be educated and even those who did not surreptitiously claim they went because it was prestigious. The fact of the matter is that it took 40 years to graduate/matriculate from Waset; this then means that none of the Greeks graduated. . . . . significant Kemet-Greece linkage: I Thales (624-547 B.C.) was the first (protos) Greek student to receive his training from Egyptian priests in the Nile Valley. II Plato (428-347 B.C.) records that Thales was educated in Egypt under the priests. III Proclus (Neoplationist, 420-485 A.D.) Reports that Thales introduced science, philosophy and mathematics/geometry to Greece. IV Greek intellectual life started with the Egyptian-trained student, Thales. He was the founder of the first Greek school of philosophy and science. V Thales strongly recommended that Pythagoras travel to Egypt to receive his basic education and to converse as often as possible with the priests of Memphis and Thebes. . . . . ... Education in ancient Egypt was religious at its base.” At age seven, the brightest boys in Egypt were selected for training in the priesthood. This was the highest honor that could be possibly bestowed on a family - the selection of a son for admission into a caste of brilliant thinkers, the “guardians of the state” whom Plato so greatly admired and wrote about. When the boys (Neophytes) entered the Temple/schools (or Grand Lodge) they had to study for 40 years - ... The Neophyte was vigorously trained in how to: 1. Control his thoughts 2. Control his actions 3. Have devotion of purpose 4. Have faith in the ability of his master to teach him the truth 5. Have faith in himself to assimilate the truth 6. Have faith in himself to wield the truth 7. Be free from resentment under the experience of persecution 8. Be free from resentment under experience of wrong 9. Cultivate the ability to distinguish between the real and the unreal (i.e., he must have a sense of values) 10. Cultivate the ability to distinguish between right and wrong Plato, who greatly admired the Egyptian education system and actually recommended that it be introduced into Greece, copied/imitated/derived his three “cardinal virtues” from these ten goals the neophyte had to attain in the Nile Valley. “Control of thoughts and action,” Plato called the “virtue of wisdom;” “freedom of resentment under persecution” Plato called the “virtue of fortitude;” “the ability to distinguish between right and wrong and between the real and unreal,” Plato called the “virtues of justice and temperance.” Dr Kwame Nantambu is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Pan-African Studies at Kent State University [/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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