“Expansion of the mind” – An implementation of human intellectual progress to understand human history

Abstract

According to the idea presented in the article, there is a correlation between the amount of education in society and social progress. Therefore, researchers in the future need to turn education into a motivator. This means that the increase in education in society is a factor rather than a result. Modern thought began in ancient Greece with the establishment of the Plato Academy, stopped in the Middle Ages, continued slowly in the Renaissance and entered its intended pace in the 20th century, when most of the population was exposed to education. This new way of thinking brings historical thinking to the understanding that human history is a very small part of the real pace of development of mankind, because most of history has had very few educated people. This new way of thinking brings humanity to understand that human history as it was until now is a very small part of the true human history, as it should be when all human beings were exposed to education. So in fact, the modern age is not the culmination of human progress but rather is just the beginning. The beginning that was delayed by the failure of most of the population to be exposed to education for most of the existence of human society. The acceptance of this new way of thinking leads the historian to realize that the smaller the number of educated people, the smaller the number of inventions in the period under discussion.