Dr. Carr’s lecture on September 2, 2010, was on the basis of knowledge in the world. He spoke about important concepts such as how knowledge was used to acquire wisdom and how wisdom was important to the progress made in mankind. We learned about the gods of Egypt and how the Egyptians used one of the most advanced types of writing, hieroglyphics which is still one of the most advanced forms of text in today’s world. We learned the importance of the scribes, who are the reason why today’s world has become so advanced. Dr. Carr also spoke about the many different sciences and mathematics that are present in today’s world that started in Africa, and specifically Egypt. These are things like the calendar and time, which we learned was modified by the Greeks to include their Gods, but it used to be a ten month calendar, which is exemplified by the roots in the names of the months, like the Oct in October which means eight, but because the Greek additions, October is now the tenth month of the year. From this lecture I was able to take away many important messages. One of the most prominent messages from this lecture that lingered in my mind was the importance of taking knowledge to the next level and using knowledge to acquire knowledge because without wisdom, we are unable to use knowledge for something worthwhile, without wisdom, knowledge is just a bunch of meaningless numbers. Also the explanation of the basis of many counting and scientific principles and how they were modified by other civilizations explained a lot of the discontinuity I noticed in our counting system (specifically the monthly calendar).
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