Plato’s ideas about education displayed in “Allegory of the Cave” are also complimented by other great thinkers who feel that education is the only way to enlightenment. In “Learning to Read” written by Frederick Douglass, Douglass talked about how he was a slave and was completely illiterate. During his time period, teaching slaves was against the law (Douglass 101). This kept slaves in the dark, and just like the people in the cave, their overseers were able to remain in command because the slaves didn’t understand that their lives did not have to be lived this way. As a slave, he often ran errands for his slave master, and in those short periods of limited freedom, thanks to the courtesy of others, he was able to gain a benchmark for his
