The best explanation for how humans populated the Earth is that "they migrated
<span>mostly over land from Africa over the last eighty thousand years" since all human life originated in Africa. </span>
In the past, experts and teachers taught apprentices their arts and disciplines, but over the centuries and the growth of universities and the increase of those who could attend university, it became mandatory, in the last two centuries, having a career, a mastership or postgraduate degree were vital every time more to obtain specialized jobs. Now, curricular innovation is a permanent process, in which academic institutions evaluate their education programs, the skills students need in a modernized world, teaching and learning methodologies, as well as advances in current knowledge, to have the best teaching according to the time and the advances in the sciences.
The options that apply are:
- to understand the world from a secular perspective
- to examine the natural rights that humans possess
- to question the source of authority
The Enlightment Era, also called Age of Reason, took place in the 18th century and advocated ideas based on reason, constitutional government and secular learning.
The Enlightment philosophers opposed to the absolute power of monarchies and the Church and based their doctrines in individual liberty and religious tolerance.
The main philosophers of Age of Reason were Kant, Adam Smith, Voltaire, Locke. This philosophical movement was associated with the scientific revolution.
