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  Everybody learns at their own pace in their own context, but how many are interested in how they learn, what a learning theory is, what enhances and hinders learning, how what we know about learning has changed in course of time, and how interrelated learning and instruction are. Driscoll (2005) describes as “…a persisting change in performance or performance potential that results from experience and interaction in the world” (p.1). Given that we all experience and interact with our environment, it is impossible to consider learning as a lifelong activity (Driscoll, 2005 p.2). Learning is not a simple process but a complicated one which requires a myriad of competencies. Whether learning has taken place or not can be observed through the performance of the individuals. In order for learning to take place, learners should experience and these experiences should be reflected on their behaviours as observables changes. What leads to learning theories which aim to explain the law...

  The Allegory of the Cave by Plato depicts the way people think and they live. The ones who are not courageous enough to face the realities of life are bound to live what is reflected as reality to them and therefore imprison themselves to an unreal imaginary world. the men in the cave are chained and cannot turn around to see the real world and they perceive the shadows of the people passing by carrying different objects as their realities. This represent illiteracy and the chains represent the rules authority and power imposed by the laws, the stronger, families and so on. However, if a person is courageous enough to realize himself and find the truth, and reaches knowledge, he becomes mature and produces his own ideas rather than perceiving the world around them through the perspectives of others. It can be deduced that the context of Plato’s allegory is education and that it tells about what Plato thought about the nature of philosophical education. In other words...

  During the 18 th  century, the era of the Enlightenment appeared to be a dominant philosophical movement in Europe which considered reason as the primary source of man’s realising himself. Kant considered enlightenment as “man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage” which incapacitated his own understanding and made man tied to another’s guidance. Kant stated that man should exploit dogmas and formulas and use them to end his nonage. He considered giving up enlightenment as the violation of man’s rights, supporting the idea that man should use their own reason in religious matters without any need for external guidance. 

  2001: Space Odyssey is a well-known science fiction film which was produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The film was inspired by Arthur C. Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel” and well as his other short stories. The screenplay was co-written by Kubrick and Clarke. The film starts with an amazing opening scene, “The Dawn of Man” and depicts the stages of human evolution from primates to man on a voyage to Jupiter accompanied by a computer, HAL. The themes of the film can be listed as existentialism, human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence and the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. Watching the scene, “The Dawn of Man” enables viewers to identify the stages how primates evolved into humans who have eventually become capable of travelling to other planets in pursuit of finding answers to their curiosity and how they have become cognitively able. Cambridge Dictionary defines cognition as ‘the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understan...