“If we are thinking about effect of education – or the lack of it – on our nature, there is another comparison we can make”(The Allegory of the Cave by Plato 1). Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece; he was fighting for freedom and education. Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim who was fighting for human rights. They both had a vision of freedom and education. We have two stories; one is “The Allegory of the Cave” and “Learning to Read”. Education is a very useful thing that can open our eyes to many things, and we should know how we need to develop properly. Why do we have to compare these two stories? Can we conclude some very important things after reviewing? In this stories we can find two different ways how to study, even though stories have some same ideas, they are different. I have several reasons why they are different and how are they similar.
The first thing why these stories are similar is that education can totally change your view to everything. Education is a light in darkness. It can open our eyes. In the “The Allegory of the Cave”, by Plato, we have some good examples. First example is a cave. Cave shows us the world, in this world are people who can only see the attached wall, and behind them is a fire that forms a shadow on the wall. These people can’t turn around, they see only the shadow of the wall. Cave shows us that people's mind is closed from the outside world, and what they see there are shadows, but not real vision. Only education will help them to get out. Education as a light outside, he will give you understand that life in the cave is very poor and limited. And therefore it is necessary to get yourself out of the cave, despite the fact that it hurts. In the “Learning to Re...
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... way to freedom and knowledge, the main purpose of life was to promote freedom. Plato said, “What they say, roughly speaking, is that they are able to put knowledge into souls where none was before. Like putting sight into eyes which were blind.”(The Allegory of the Cave 2) Everyone who does not learn is blind, and he is not aware of how he is jailed. No matter what way do you choose, remember that the most important thing is freedom, may be for someone it will be light outside while you're in a cave, but for someone it will be easy and enjoyable.
Finally we learned a lot, there are differences and similarities of the two authors, but we must remember that everyone has the opportunity to escape from the cave of shadows and see the real world and smell the freedom. Never be afraid of nothing, the way to freedom lies through the diligence and the labor.
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In Learning to Read, by Malcolm X, he talks about his studies while in prison. Having only up to an eighth grade education, Malcolm X struggles with reading and writing. The main reason he decided to learn how to read was because of the letters he received while in prison, primarily from Elijah Muhammad. (X 354). He wasn’t able to write responses to them like he wanted to without using slang. Along with not being able to write letters, Malcolm X couldn’t read books without skipping over most of the words, thus motivating him to study an entire dictionary. With the use of said dictionary, he also improved his penmanship by writing down every word, definition, and punctuation he saw. (X 355). Once he memorized the whole dictionary, he was then able to read books. There wasn’t a moment where Malcolm wasn’t reading even at night when the lights were out, he still managed to use the little bit of light shining into his cell to read.
Imagine a group of people, prisoners, who had been chained to stare at a wall in a cave for all of their lives. Facing that wall, these prisoners can pass the time by merely watching the shadows casted from a fire they could not see behind them dance on the walls. These shadows became the closest to what view of reality the prisoners have. But what happens after one of these prisoners is unbound from his chains to inspect beyond the wall of shadows, to the fire and outside the cave? How would seeing the world outside of the walls of the cave affect his views of the shadows and reality? It is this theme with its questions that make up Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. It is in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave that there are several key ideas presented in the allegory. The ideas presented in the allegory can be related back to themes of education and the gaining of knowledge and in ways that can relate back to “us”, the people.