Uneducated People Of World Today Vs. People Who Lived In Plato’s Cave
The highest form of education being learned from Plato’s cave is the enlightenment and open mind; the ancient world still influences the uneducated people that it is essential to keep an open mind. The reality that the people in the cave would take was coming from the shadows they were seeing and the hearing of echoes. The Plato’s cave enlightens more on education, whereby it compares between educating and leading out of the cave into the light. Many people in today’s world lack enlightenment as the highest form of education, which makes them uneducated. The Plato’s allegory of the cave gives the uneducated people of the world today the intellectual or spiritual light, in imparting knowledge and to instruct, and to shed light more.
To walk away and look forward after being left free from Plato’s cave, was an enormous task that everyone was unwilling to take but in straying from what is known and comfortable. When the uneducated people open their minds, the new ideas may be readily accepted, and things will be viewed in new perceptions, the uneducated and society, in general, will be educated and advance. In Plato’s allegory cave, the prisoners were freed is when they saw the light-education, and looking towards the sunlight made the prisoners know of the reality, which is an alternative. Due to Plato belief that individual enlightenment is essential both as society and individual, people who not in the cave could have made more significant effort to go in the cave and inform their associate humans, as this was the responsibility of the enlightened to return to the cave and give education to the prisoners who were remaining in the cave. Plato’s expression was that education is not accessible, but there is more in education than giving only the knowledge to the people who do not have it.