Plato was a philosopher in classical Greece and the founder of the academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world. Plato’s allegory of cave is from his work “Republic” in which he describes a group of people who are chained to the wall such that they cannot move at all , facing a blank wall and have lived like that for all their lives. They have no knowledge of the outside world so they are presented with shadows that are casted from the fire behind them, so they name the shadows and they are the real person for them as they are unaware of the outside world so they form their own world in the cave. These shadows are casted by the man who walk pass the hallway carrying objects made of stone and they also make sounds to go along with the objects. These people have to live with this reality their all lives like they would give random names to those objects and in our reality
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But according to Plato we need to break all the chain to the sensory perception in order to get the spiritual perception. He also talks about an ideal state in which state no one is superior or inferior in this world. Plato is known as the first communist because of his concept of equality among the people. The allegory of cave also prove the role of education is not to teach but give them information that can brush their knowledge on what they already know the allegory is the best explanation in all of his work for how human beings learn. He says that people are born with the highest knowledge a person can get through his life and all people have to do is remember it or find a way to be taught how to remember. The prisoners should have the willingness to learn no body can force them to learn what they do not want to learn nor can anybody learn for them. A teacher does their role of teaching but it is on the prisoners what they understand, they lead you somewhere and education being a personal journey you have to come to a conclusion about things that you
But according to Plato we need to break all the chain to the sensory perception in order to get the spiritual perception. He also talks about an ideal state in which state no one is superior or inferior in this world. Plato is known as the first communist because of his concept of equality among the people. The allegory of cave also prove the role of education is not to teach but give them information that can brush their knowledge on what they already know the allegory is the best explanation in all of his work for how human beings learn. He says that people are born with the highest knowledge a person can get through his life and all people have to do is remember it or find a way to be taught how to remember. The prisoners should have the willingness to learn no body can force them to learn what they do not want to learn nor can anybody learn for them. A teacher does their role of teaching but it is on the prisoners what they understand, they lead you somewhere and education being a personal journey you have to come to a conclusion about things that you