Editing Learning theory (education) (section)

====Plato====
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[[Plato]] (428 BC–347 BC) proposed the question: "How does an individual learn something new when the topic is brand new to that person?", This question may seem trivial; however, think of a human-like a computer.  The question would then become: How does a computer take in any factual information without previous programming?  Plato answered his own question by stating that knowledge is present at birth and all information learned by a person is merely a recollection of something the soul has already learned previously,<ref name="Phillips2009">{{cite book|author1=D.C. Phillips |author2= Jonas F. Soltis|title=Perspectives on Learning |edition= 5th |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vVzUtECrJ2IC|year=2009 |publisher=Teachers College Press|isbn=978-0-8077-7120-4 |series=Thinking About Education }}</ref> which is called the Theory of Recollection or [[Platonic epistemology]].<ref name="plato.stanford.edu">{{cite encyclopedia|author=Silverman, Allan|title=Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology|encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|date=9 June 2003 |edition=Fall 2014|editor=Edward N. Zalta| url=http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2014/entries/plato-metaphysics/}}</ref>  This answer could be further justified by a paradox: If a person knows something, they don't need to question it, and if a person does not know something, they don't know to question it.<ref name="plato.stanford.edu"/>  Plato says that if one did not previously know something, then they cannot learn it.  He describes learning as a passive process, where information and knowledge are ironed into the soul over time.  However, Plato's theory elicits even more questions about knowledge: If we can only learn something when we already had the knowledge impressed onto our souls, then how did our souls gain that knowledge in the first place?  Plato's theory can seem convoluted; however, his classical theory can still help us understand knowledge today.<ref name="Phillips2009" />