Parable of the Cave
Parable of the Cave
cave dwellers see only the shadows of reality. [Gk. Phil.: Republic]
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--Mary Gordon, "The
parable of the Cave; or, In Praise of Watercolors" in The Writer on Her Work
Plato's
parable of the cave defines the upward mobility of the unlearned to the learned and thereby symbolically defines education as an entire system.
She reads the
parable of the cave from The Republic to demonstrate how illusory is Jacob's education in the Greek classics, and the Phaedrus to reveal the elegiac quality of that education.
On the first day of some literature classes, I hand out a copy of Plato's "
Parable of the Cave" (sometimes called "The Allegory of the Cave").
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