“…On the other hand, there are very few studies on the subject both in our country and abroad. Some of them were revealed the pre-service teachers' opinions on lifelong learning (Çalışkan Toyoğlu, 2016;Gencel, 2013;Napal Fraile, Peñalva-Vélez, and Mendióroz Lacambra, 2018;Şahin et al, 2010), the others were revealed the secondary school students' level of acquiring the competences (Chow, 2012;Drăghicescu, Cristea, Petrescu, Gorghiu, and Gorghiu, 2015;Erkek, Özdaş, and Çakmak, 2022;Hatlevik, Guðmundsdóttir, and Loi, 2015). In addition, Özdaş (2019) investigated high school teachers' opinions on acquisition of competences, and Şahin and Arcagök (2014) investigated the primary school teachers' opinions of lifelong learning.…”