Get Out of the Cave! Public Education and Shaping Reality: Plato’s Allegory of the Cave!

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“…compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as this” (Socrates, Republic, 514a-520a) (Translation by Thomas Sheehan, https://web.stanford.edu/class/ihum40/cave.pdf).

When considering the prospect of public education in modernity, Allegory of the Cave or Plato’s Cave becomes a…