Topic > Importance of education in the allegory of the cave

What kind of experience can be defined as education? Is it the practice of putting knowledge or information into students' brains? Or is it the activity in which the master shows his apprentices the appropriate skills to carry out delicate work? People are inclined to accumulate possessions. For some, they stock up on substantial materials. But others prefer to possess the knowledge. There were many sophists who claimed to be omniscient and gave instructions to anyone who sought their help. As we have noted, "certain professors of education must be wrong when they say that they can put knowledge into the soul that was not there before, like sight in blind eyes" (Plato 4). Education can be done only when restrictions are removed and the latent potentials of students are stimulated. The strength and ability to learn already exists in everyone's soul. Education is about activating those powers and capacities so as to complete the ascent from becoming to being. The educational ideology illustrated in the Allegory of the Cave proposes teaching as a conversion process that can lead to true enlightenment. The allegory introduces two types of loss: one is the ascent from the primitive state to a more sophisticated state; the other the descent from the beatific vision to human affairs. We will say lucky if he experiences the first and we will pity those who belong to the second. Whatever it is anyway