The Vitality of Seeking Education
Have you ever seen something that captivates your mind and causes you to want to immerse yourself in new knowledge about what this thing is and how it works? You’re not sure why, but this one thing drives your desire to learn more and more. You found something you don’t understand about your world and need to know more about it. Plato would tell you that this is a natural reaction to you coming to grasp with a new reality. That your individual desire to seek out knowledge is not only vital to human survival but natural! Plato uses The Allegory of the Cave to demonstrate the importance of seeking out our own education which helps us understand our world better and illustrates our natural sense of curiosity and desire to learn.
In the allegory of the cave, Plato discusses the importance of education as well as what that …show more content…
Plato exemplifies this while talking about the prisoner adjusting to the upper world, “the time which would be needed to acquire this new habit of sight might be very considerable.” Plato’s use of the words “acquire” and “habit” shows that learning new information takes time. There will be a time period of still not being able to see reality as it truly is. This is best exemplified by looking back in time and seeing how long it took for us to get to where we are. Without individuals who seek out their own education we would live in a world with very little technological advancement. Imagine still living in the 1800’s. We wouldn’t have cars cause no one was interested enough to learn on their own and invent something with that knowledge. We would still be dying from terrible diseases because no one took it upon themselves to learn more about a disease to find a cure. The list goes on and on. If we didn’t seek out our own education, we would contribute nothing to the world around us. Plato suggests that it is not only necessary humans seek out knowledge but that it is also a part of human
Have you ever seen something that captivates your mind and causes you to want to immerse yourself in new knowledge about what this thing is and how it works? You’re not sure why, but this one thing drives your desire to learn more and more. You found something you don’t understand about your world and need to know more about it. Plato would tell you that this is a natural reaction to you coming to grasp with a new reality. That your individual desire to seek out knowledge is not only vital to human survival but natural! Plato uses The Allegory of the Cave to demonstrate the importance of seeking out our own education which helps us understand our world better and illustrates our natural sense of curiosity and desire to learn.
In the allegory of the cave, Plato discusses the importance of education as well as what that …show more content…
Plato exemplifies this while talking about the prisoner adjusting to the upper world, “the time which would be needed to acquire this new habit of sight might be very considerable.” Plato’s use of the words “acquire” and “habit” shows that learning new information takes time. There will be a time period of still not being able to see reality as it truly is. This is best exemplified by looking back in time and seeing how long it took for us to get to where we are. Without individuals who seek out their own education we would live in a world with very little technological advancement. Imagine still living in the 1800’s. We wouldn’t have cars cause no one was interested enough to learn on their own and invent something with that knowledge. We would still be dying from terrible diseases because no one took it upon themselves to learn more about a disease to find a cure. The list goes on and on. If we didn’t seek out our own education, we would contribute nothing to the world around us. Plato suggests that it is not only necessary humans seek out knowledge but that it is also a part of human