The Internet Age is a period marked by advancements in technology where information travels from all parts of the world in less than a second. Many great individuals helped shape this Information Age. An innovator, designer, and magnate called Steve Jobs is among these individuals. He was a man filled with both passion and creativity. A college dropout who pursued something more than an education. By inventing the Macintosh, having a unique marketing strategy and campaign, and thinking differently, he...
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In this essay, I am going to examine three main schools of thought, namely - cognitive, behaviorist and humanistic - in the context of the educational process, and decide which of them seems best for the learning circumstances. Cognitive School of Thought Cognitive school of thought refers to how someone learn which is through mental processes, mainly on how people think, understand, remember and most probably apply it in their daily basis. So, scientists had estimated what goes on in...
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Enlightenment period took place between 17th and 19th centuries and it witnessed significant developments in political thought that became the building blocks of Modern Western system of state and liberal democracy. The English, French and American Revolutions were inspired from reformist political ideologies of the time such as social contract, rights, liberty, separation of power, general will and free market economy (Bristow, 2017). This paper will examine the main political thinkers of Enlightenment. Those are Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Montesquieu,...
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Critical thinking is the ability to evaluate observable phenomena, research findings, data, sources, and opinions objectively and independently, regardless of outside influence or any personal bias interfering with your judgment about something/someone or a specific issue or source. A good critical ‘’thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skilfully taking charge of the structures inherent in thinking and imposing intellectual standards upon them.’’ The first quote above involves three interwoven phrases and suggests that critical thinking analyses...
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The Enlightenment of the eighteenth century is commonly acknowledged by most modern contemporary thinkers as being a pivotal moment in the advancement of human intellect, if not the beginning of modernity. According to Immanuel Kant, the Enlightenment encouraged people to be free-thinking and to deviate from conventional ways of thinking by using their own ability to reason (Jacob, 2001). In addition, this movement should be observed , not as a singular force, but as a diffusion of moderate versus radical...
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