To my mind, learning is empowering in that it gives you a clearer sense of knowing what you know and knowing what you don't know (and this is empowering in that it helps make more pertinent questions, have sharper insight, and more precise understanding).
I don’t have context but it seems like the 1st option is the best. No
At first i thought it was D but after wards it explains how they were planing everything and so they behaved like pirates