One can gain a better understanding of Jean Anyon 's Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum or Work," by examining how it relates to Plato 's famous "Allegory of the Cave," in which he describes an underground cave where prisoners have been chained since birth, and can only see shadows projected on the wall in front of them by puppet-masters behind a fire. They take these shadows to be reality, as they know nothing else, until one of them escapes to see the confines of his own subjectivity, in the outside world of enlightenment. In Anyon 's essay, the cave could be a bad education system which also known as working class schools. "Rote behavior was often called for in this classroom work."(Anyon 4) The students are learning by memorizing and
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In the students ' eyes and perspectives, they think that the teaching and learning style is the reality which is the best because they did not have the opportunity to know the better one because of their poverty which can be relate with Plato 's famous, "... how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads,"(Plato 6) in which the prisoners or the students cannot see what is behind them because they were chained up or limited their ability because of poverty. Therefore, in my opinion, the one who controls the shadows or the puppet master must be the teachers. They are the one who give the students this bad education because based on Anyon 's essay, this teacher, "... attempted to control classroom time and space by makind decisions without consulting the children and without explaining the basis for their decisions."(Anyon 4) Thus, what I can relate with one who escapes and goes outside of the cave is a student who gets the opportunity or his parents getting promoted for a better job. This student is shocked as it goes to the new school because what he thought the reality or the shadow that he received in the cave is completely wrong. …show more content…
However, this student felt pity towards his others friends who stuck in the cave or in the bad education, "And when he remembered his old habitation, and the wisdom of the den and his fellow prisoners, do you not suppose that he would felicitate himself on the change, and pity them?"(Plato 27) So, when the time passes by where he already succeeds, he has the opportunity to go back to his origin and leads his friends out of the cave by telling the truth and helping to solve their financial
In the students ' eyes and perspectives, they think that the teaching and learning style is the reality which is the best because they did not have the opportunity to know the better one because of their poverty which can be relate with Plato 's famous, "... how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads,"(Plato 6) in which the prisoners or the students cannot see what is behind them because they were chained up or limited their ability because of poverty. Therefore, in my opinion, the one who controls the shadows or the puppet master must be the teachers. They are the one who give the students this bad education because based on Anyon 's essay, this teacher, "... attempted to control classroom time and space by makind decisions without consulting the children and without explaining the basis for their decisions."(Anyon 4) Thus, what I can relate with one who escapes and goes outside of the cave is a student who gets the opportunity or his parents getting promoted for a better job. This student is shocked as it goes to the new school because what he thought the reality or the shadow that he received in the cave is completely wrong. …show more content…
However, this student felt pity towards his others friends who stuck in the cave or in the bad education, "And when he remembered his old habitation, and the wisdom of the den and his fellow prisoners, do you not suppose that he would felicitate himself on the change, and pity them?"(Plato 27) So, when the time passes by where he already succeeds, he has the opportunity to go back to his origin and leads his friends out of the cave by telling the truth and helping to solve their financial