The Relationship of Allegory of the Cave to Learning and Education Essa

The Relationship of Allegory of the Cave to Learning and EducationThe Allegory of the Cave is Platos attempt to explain the relationship in the midst of knowledge and ignorance. Starting with the image of men in fetters that limit their movement and force them to look only ahead, this is the idea that all men and women are resile by the limits of their ignorance. Men and women are restricted by the limits of the education of their parents and the small amounts that can be culled from their environment. Images and shadows are representations of those things surrounding us that we sop up but do not understand because of our limited knowledge. As we obtain the ability to see things more clearly in the cave that is our ignorance, we start to then loosen the fetters that puzzle us and investigate the objects and images around us with our newly acquired mobility. Eyes that have seen nothing but darkness for so long are now fine-tuned to see even the smallest glimmer of light, or knowle dge, in the far reaches of the cave. Constantly moving and gathering knowledge we observe that we are in fact m...