containing a fast change for the individual and in profession and technical processes, it adds competences to the
individual in different areas during the life cycle. Holmes (2002) has pointed out that besides life-long learning is a
discipline and an approach, it contains individual development processes planned or not. Demirel (2011) and Pieri &
Diamantini (2010) in his definition has indicated that life-long learning is recognizing the world and the self,
acquiring new knowledge and abilities in any particular area, investing for the future, creating new things, a learning
habit and a behavior. Similarly, Ersoy and Yilmaz (2009) have called life-long learning as an endless road and
mentioned that it has a very important function for the development of individuals therefore for the community. In a
similar definition, Preece (2013), has said that life-long learning has a comprehensive and visionary structure and
has defined it as all of the activities of learning from birth to death which can be formal, pervasive and informal.
Akbas & Ozdemir (2002) has indicated that there are some basic principles in the life-long learning. These principles
are;