How to Break the Western Hegemony Perpetuated by University

Decolonised Courses in Mathematics, History and Philosophy of Science

Abstract

Colonial education came for the benefit of the coloniser. It brought the claim of civilizational superiority, using a fraud history of science. This taught the colonised to mentally submit to Western authority, and detest their own culture as “inferior”. Though colonial education supposedly came for science, it actually was church education designed for this very purpose. The resulting capitulation to Western authority is enforced today by the slavish system of university rankings adopted by governments in OIC countries. This fraud history of science was first concocted by the church, especially during the Crusades, and later modified and used by racists and colonialists to claim racial and cultural superiority respectively. The colonised never independently cross-checked that fraud history, and never understood the trick of supporting false history with bad philosophy. To decolonise, it is first necessary to introduce decolonised courses on the history and philosophy of science even for students of humanities. Colonial education deliberately taught ignorance: hence even elite academics today are ignorant of mathematics and science. This ignorance forces widespread uncritical reliance on Western authority, but can be easily remedied using decolonised math courses which make math easy even for humanities students. These decolonised courses have been pedagogically tested in universities in three countries over the last decade. They enable students to solve harder math problems. They also enable people to understand how church superstitions creep into Western science through Western (formal) mathematics.