African Wisdom

The Wisdom of Experience

Direct experience teaches what theory cannot. Those who have traveled the path know its difficulties.

Direct experience teaches what theory cannot. Those who have traveled the path know its difficulties.

What the child sees at home, it will later practice. Experience is the best teacher.

Pan-African Proverbs

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• What African traditions say about elders and ancestors

  Having walked the road is treated as a different kind of knowledge from having heard about it. This is the practical case for listening to the old rather than the sentimental one.