Sources of knowledge

it is the process of turning away from what it put in front of us and finding what is true for ourselves. The process that Plato describes involves two parts. First a student must have the desire and willingness to absorb knowledge, and secondly must be able to take that knowledge and use it to challenge their preconceived truths. Just as the child in the story would have seen the…

The primary difference between learning in a traditional class versus learning in an online setting is that traditional learning you are sitting in front of the professor with other classmates and can get immediate help when needed. If you are online you have to wait until the professor is online and is available, so the communication feedback would be slower. In an online learning the student is complete control of their learning. If the student wants to work ahead they can, they do not have to…

this by forming three key classes of citizens. First Commoners, these citizens are the blue collar farmers or crafts men they are the bronze. Second you have what Socrates calls the Auxiliaries these people are your military; they have a limited knowledge that can be later trained to be come what he calls the Guardians in other words the rulers. Socrates believed that this city would be ideal to the people as long as they follow the procedural justice. His view on procedural justice is when each…

Looking at somatic psychology from a structural level, somatic psychology is uniquely positioned to offer an understanding of the way in which an individual adjusts as a ‘normal citizen’ and how this contributes to the reproduction of the cultural and socioeconomic system within which he or she becomes adjusted (Johnson, 2009). When we conform to prohibitions and inhibitions dictated by our culture, this requires a loss of attention to the voice of our embodied experience. This is where…

help. This experience has shown me the good that can come out of an inclusion classroom. I want students to be excited about coming to school and being in my classroom. This experience has helped me come closer that those goals by giving me more knowledge about an inclusion…

ever come to understand the form of the Good. The sun is to be recognized as the Good; it “is not sight, but… it [is] the cause of sight itself, and seen by it” (Plato 65). Without the sun, things could neither exist, in that all beings, to Plato’s knowledge, required sunlight for survival, nor be seen, as our eyes cannot function…

to be terrified of the unknown. Plato has conflicting views when regarding the existence of certainty and doubt in society. In Plato's The Allegory of the Cave, the cave may represent this superficial reality, everything that the prisoners have knowledge of has been conceived from mere illusions created by shadows. Because the prisoners had no sort of contact with the outside world they have become certain that the shadows were real. In Plato's Euthyphro, Socrates has been convicted on charges…

Theory of Dimensions In Plato's' The Allegory of the Cave, allows an individual to realize that which they already know. The situation in the cave seems dark and gloomy, like a place no one would ever want to go. However, the reality is that some people are at a point in their lives where that is where they are, in their own "cave". The people that are in Plato's' cave, the prisoners, have always been there. They all have their legs and necks chained and cannot move. They cannot turn their necks…

differentiate their instruction and continue to adapt during instruction as needs that were not our could not be anticipated become more clear. Adaptive teaching is not the same as reactive teaching. Adaptive teaching uses formative assessments, knowledge of pedagogy, observation and reflection of real time teaching to adapt the lesson based on the immediate needs of the…

defined as a person who places a high value on or pursues things of interest to the intellect or the more complex forms and fields of knowledge. This definition of an intellectual has been restricted by an educational system to mean indoctrinate students into what the system believes to be “academic”. Gerald Graff’s essay “Hidden Intellectualism” argues that there is knowledge and intelligence beyond what the traditional education system is practicing. Graff contends that incorporating the…