Prof. Miller| ENG 1101 - OL62 | Fall 2020

Micro-Activity # 4: Allegory of the Cave

In the article “Allegory of the Cave” we literally observe two different types of roles which kind of are “teachers” and “students” in a kind of big way. The article basically was about 2400 years ago the most famous philosopher Plato’s Allegory Cave where a group of prisoners essentially were captured since their birth and they definitely had no knowledge about outside. They mostly thought shadows particularly are real and made their imaginary world, which mostly is fairly significant. One day one prisoner was freed and particularly went outside and got knowledge about outside. Then he particularly realized everything they essentially thought actually was their illusion, not definitely real in a actually big way. And he actually went to the cave and particularly explained to them about their imagination and kind of told them those for all intents and purposes were not real. In this case, the freed prisoner literally was rolling as a teacher and particularly other prisoners essentially were rolling as students, which is quite significant. Because teachers essentially were always explaining things, their experience and their knowledge to their students. The students for all intents and purposes were always listening and learning from their teacher, which kind of is quite significant. Students basically were gathering knowledge, ideas and experiences from teachers and using it in their life. First of all, every new student actually has zero knowledge and then they actually learn new things and generally apply it in their really own way. A teacher”s job actually is to spread their knowledge to their students and kind of make very sure they understand it.

Education for all intents and purposes is the most powerful word for every person”s life. Every person’s needs to be educated. Because education gives us power, confidence and encourages us to move on with our life. It makes us really independent and solves our every difficulties. Education gives us success and money. Education is a way that we succeed in our dreams and earn money. Education gives you power to fight with others for your opinion about for all intents and purposes your for all intents and purposes own life. Nobody can’t force you to do things which are against your thoughts if you essentially are educated, contrary to popular belief. I believe education makes me independent and confident, then I don’t specifically have to depend on others and nobody controls my life. But if we are not educated, then we don’t know about anything, no knowledge and also depend on others in a major way. Sometimes uneducated people for all intents and purposes are persecuted and they are silent when they kind of are right, they don\’t even protest, which is quite significant. And they thought they kind of were weak and did not fight for their rights. People who specifically are not educated sometimes face unemployment problems and people’s ignorance, or so they thought. In the article prisoners basically have no knowledge about outside and they don’t believe others experiences. They need to be educated and know about what is reality and what is illusion in a big way. So that’s why, education is very very essential for every person’s life in a major way.

1 Comment

  1. Prof. Suzanne Miller

    Sabah,

    Your observation that the “Allegory of the Cave” shows us both “teacher” and “student” in a “kind of big way” is absolutely correct!

    I appreciate your observations regarding the importance of education– I also appreciate the passion you brought to this post!

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