The Allegory Of The Cave Analysis

In the stories, What the Best College Students Do by Ken Bain, The Allegory of the Cave by Plato, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass, and The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty by Dan Ariely, the authors convey the importance of the freedom of learning and the different approaches to learning. Each author has a unique way of getting their point across; some through violence and some through experiments. The connection made between these stories is that every individual has the right to learn, and it is important to understand their approaches to learning. In an excerpt of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass, he describes at the beginning that he was born into slavery and there was no escape. He thought that he would never be free. Then he discovered something that not many slaves had; the mindset to learn. Douglass had a white woman teach him to read almost every day, until his owner demanded that his wife stop teaching him, otherwise he would not be able to serve him anymore. Of course that did not stop Douglass. He would not let anyone get in the way of his freedom anymore, so he taught himself to read and write. The main idea to pull from his …show more content…
One prisoner was allowed to go outside one day, and he was awed by the huge world around him. Before he only knew of that cave, but then he knew that he was only in a small chunk of the big world. The prisoner became furious that he did not know of this before, and became depressed when re-entering the cave. He thought that it was unfair to be restricted to only looking at a dark wall for the rest of his life. He wanted to learn more about where he came from and who he really was. He did not have the freedom like Douglass before he developed the mindset to learn on his