Exploring Truth: Insights from Plato and Freire

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In Plato 's "Allegory of the Cave" Socrates is teaching his pupil Glaucon how people are like prisoners in a cave who have a hard time perceiving reality and thinks that shadows are as real as objects. He goes on to explain that it 's not until one leaves the cave when one can discover truth, but to attain the truth requires one 's own personal journey. In Paulo Freire 's "The Banking Concept of Education" he explains the oppressive way that students are currently being taught through a depositing and receiving type of method where the teacher is the depositor and the students are the empty vessels in which those deposits are put into. He explains how the education …show more content…

He further points out there is a process, an eye adjustment that needs to take place in order for him to truly see the truth. First feeling disoriented, then pain from the light, then he can see. But Plato implies that once one takes the journey, they are instantly convinced of the truth and have attained absolute truth. I would argue that not everyone 's climb to understanding lead them to the absolute truth. They may have received a clearer view or added another view to their beliefs or replaced it with old ones because they seem better. Good is enemy of the …show more content…

Improving methods of education creates a safer environment for people to start their journey into discovering truth. It can be quite dangerous to be subject to an oppressive system that trains you to believe what they want for their own benefits. For example, in the movie "The Island", there was an underground world where people were living and all were trained to believe that everyone 's goal should be to go to 'The Island '. However, there whole world was based on a lie and that they were chlones of people in the real world, and going to 'The Island ' was actually where one was being taken to the hospital where their organs or body parts would be used to help the actual real-life versions of them. Freire suggests a "problem-posing education" solution to this education epidemic where the relationship between the students and the teachers are evened and each can take on the others roles. Through dialogue one can become more liberated to think and question. Creating thinkers can create world changers, transformers, and more educated

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