Plato Injustice In Education

In today’s society, education is the process of inheriting information from not only societal interactions, but also lessons taught in the school classroom. Students have grown up in different locations, surrounded by diverse groups of people, which comes into affecting the way in which they learn. The circumstances that they are born into should not affect the quality of learning and knowledge they get, but because of unforeseen situations, it happens- too often. The obstacles faced in education are withdrawing students of their natural right to learn and explore, regressing the morals of the children. Through Plato’s books, Meno, Protagoras, and The Republic, education is being targeted as not being done in the correct way. Plato is conveying …show more content…
Puppeteers put puppets to the fire, casting them on the wall in front of a group of prisoners. The prisoners would guess on what each of the shadows were for a reward if they got it correct, or the puppeteers would try to trick them to get it wrong to punish them. When talking about this way of learning to Socrates, Glaucon “For let me tell you, in the first place, whether persons so confined could have seen anything of themselves or each other, beyond the shadows thrown by the fire upon part of the cave facing them” (59), explaining how censorship and being only shown repeated material does not live for a valuable education, even if the students are rewarded for knowing the answers from memory. The puppeteers of today’s society are the government, establishing the rules, determining if the teachers are doing an adequate job of having the students learn exactly what they have to for each grade. The cave represents the dangers of education, how teaching to the test is like memorization to the prisoners, leading to false and useless information on an artificial measure. This is the worst thing that could happen to a student, limiting their minds from becoming abstract as they grow in the education system and even