Allegory Of The Cave Education

When a human is born, they start out from the lowest state of learning, without education, but only at imagination, which allows them to accept what they seen in their daily life. Human without education in the lowest state of learning is like the prisoners have been in the cave since childhood. Darkness in the cave is relates to the initial stage of education that blocking the prisoners from gaining knowledge. In the story, “Allegory of the Cave”, Socrates, who is a mentor to Plato, mentions, “The people have been in this dwelling since childhood, shackled by the legs and necks. Thus they stay in the same place so that there is only one thing for them to look at: whatever they encounter in front of their faces. But because they are shackled, they are unable to turn
The reflection makes the prisoners to accept what they see is reality. the relationship between the prisoners looking at the wall and the students is students will accept what they are taught by their parents or the teachers in the learning process. At the same time, Socrates also describes, “All in all those who were chained would consider nothing besides the shadows of the artifacts as the unhidden” (18). Students will not step out of the box to think more about what they’ve just learned. They will take the information on what they see and hear as the reality without putting extra efforts on analyzing the information they got. They blocked themselves from understanding the true nature of education. What they’ve learned is just an illusion which is similar to the prisoners accepting what they seen on the wall as reality. Comparing the modern life of people with the prisoners, they have limited ability and subject to live in what they should. In conclusion, information they gained are subjective and comprehensive which makes the prisoners and students have limited insight about the real