Education In Plato's The Allegory Of The Cave

In our society, there are different ways of expressing ourselves. Some do it as rulers and others as ruled. In either case, education is very important because it helps people to gain some credentialism to better their lives. It gives them potential regardless their races, societal class or sex. Unfortunately, in old days educated people were only rich ones and did not want poor ones to go to school. They desired power and control. Stratification, which means that whoever was born in a particular societal class had to remain there till death, was a strictly observed law at that time. Plato is one of the writers who emphasized this ideas in his text named “The Allegory of The Cave”, in which he stated: “To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images” (Plato 2). People only …show more content…
When one of the prisoners escaped the cave, he directly faced the sun which hurt him. The change was very brutal for someone who has always lived in the dark since there is no intermediate situation between light and darkness. “He will require to grow accustomed to the sight of the upper world” (Plato 2). He needs patience to admit that what he saw was actually the reality. Nevertheless, he was afraid of believing in that because those shadows have been the only illusions he could see since his childhood. He never dreamt of trees, mountains nor water. He was constantly shown the illusions which blinded his mind. In the other hand, learning requires a lot of sacrifices but as long as people were given the choice and were told about the importance of education, their desire of learning becomes so intense that those sacrifices are painless. “Education sector is one of the important factors that contributes to a country’s soft power” (Michalek 1).They well know what is waiting for them after school and are ready to affront anything to reach their