Read Plato’s Cave, found here, and answer the following questions:
https://yale.learningu.org/download/ca778ca3-7e93-4fa6-a03f-471e6f15028f/H2664_Allegory%20of%20the%20Cave%20.pdf
Study this illustration of Plato’s cave. What represents reality? What represents something we falsely believe to be true? In terms of the metaphor about the cave, what kind of action would represent education?
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/plato/caveframes.htm
What does the light of the fire represent? What does the sun represent?
What does Plato mean when he says, “education is not in reality what some people proclaim it to be in their professions”? How does Plato’s view of education differ? What is the “art” Plato refers to that allows the “speediest and most effective” way of getting out of the cave?