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From the first stone tools advancement has relied on consciousness, failures, and successes.

By questioning assumptions, and applying reason, this eventually helped establish the scientific method.

Excellence is not a product of wishful thinking. Excellence emerges through applied merit and competence.

We have, since forever, had opinions. Opinions are a natural part of consciousness, thought, beliefs, discussions, and debate. This provides the means for everyone to express perspectives, challenge assumptions, agree to disagree, and explore possibilities. However, while opinions may stimulate inquiry, opinions alone do not create merit, enhance excellence, advance knowledge, or produce the achievements that have, as history informs, shaped civilizations (Dwyer, 2023; Ericsson, 2008).

History informs us that human progress has depended upon the discovery and application of objective sustained realities, i.e., universal truths, that exist independently of personal beliefs, opinions, or preferences.

Observations, Analysis, Testing, Failures and Successes

From the creation of the first stone tools to the application of the wheel, agriculture, the printing press, the scientific method, medicine, engineering, science, and, of course, much more, all manner of advancements have relied upon observation, analysis, testing, failures, successes, and the application of principles that consistently proved themselves to be reliable, which advanced skills, knowledge, understanding, insights, potential, and possibilities (Ericsson & Harwell, 2019; Krauss, 2024).

The philosophers, mathematicians, physicians, and scholars of ancient Greece and many other civilizations contributed through perseverance, resilience, constant study, and unrelenting personal application to the instructional, pedagogical, and educational principles of inquiry-based learning and associated achievements.

By continually critically questioning assumptions, applying reason, adhering to universal mathematical principles, and objectively investigating the natural world, all of these different civilizations helped to eventually establish the intellectual foundations that would later influence the Renaissance, the Age of Reason and Enlightenment, and ultimately lead to the development of the scientific method.

As such, it would be reasonable to declare that during these periods, increasing importance was eventually placed upon evidence, rational investigation, and the systematic critical........

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