A literacy of awareness

Our ability to learn depend on so many different factors, these includes.
Developmental factors
   This is based on development of the brain, which varies in different people. It is said that we do not make use of our brain at the full capacity to which it can function, therefore almost everyone can be said to possess enough brain capacity to learn.
Cultural factor
   The environment we live in affects our learning process. A child born and bred in the United States will be more advanced technologically than some other child in other countries that is less technologically advanced. The environment where you raise a child also matters a lot ,if a child is raised by an educated family , there is a high possibility that the child will get to college level of education but a child raised by a non educated parents will most likely drop out of school. With exceptions there has been a wide gap in the SAT scores of students raised by educated parents as compared to those raised by non educated parents.
Social factors
  Our learning is also affected by the people around us. This is mostly due to peer pressure and competition .

Meta cognitive knowledge and meta cognitive experience are two broad categories used in describing metacognition. Metacognitive knowledge involves our ability decide if something is easy or difficult and our we plan on approaching it, we decide if an information is worth spending time on, we decide if the information is going to be of use to us . The more information we gather , the more our knowledge expands . Metacogintive experience on the other hand is based on our previous encounter with a similar information that we are trying analyse. We use the previous information that we have gathered to define the unknown , this will then enable us to add on to previous information from the new one we just encountered.