Education in Allegory of the Cave

It is usually said that education is the key to success. This saying amplifies the centre on success and hinders the complexity of education. In The apologue of the Cave, Plato exploits repulsiveness, intermediacy and Enlightenment to present education as a complex journey of achieving association. Through exploring Allegory of the cave, the first peak of education is darkness. apparition is figuratively where virtuoso is preclude from gaining know takege.Plato high lights this point and writes, &8212human beings living in an underground lair, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along den here they have been from childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only if adjoin before them, being prevented by chains from turning just about their heads. ( 1) When the captives are in the darkness, this symbolizes their ignorance and lack knowledge. Although on that point is al bearings a way that leads to gaining knowl edge, there are obstacles that prevent the pris sensationrs from pursuing knowledge.The exit that leads to the light shows that there is a way that leads to gaining knowledge. The legs and necks being bound demonstrates the obstacles that are preventing the prisoners from pursuing knowledge which limits them to be short seted and only see what is before them. Darkness is the initial stage in education that is hindering the prisoners from gaining knowledge. Darkness led to a stage of intermediacy that involves challenges and adjusting from ignorance to knowledgeable.Plato continues, &8212if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error. At first, when any of them is turn and compelled to suddenly stand up and turn his neck around and whirl and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains the glimmer will distress him and he will be unable to see the realities&8212 ( 15) When Darkness is figuratively gone and there are no obstacle, the prisoner has a weak excuse no t to pursue knowledge. When the prisoner is severance from inertia by standing up, the prisoner experiences sharp pains. This reveals the resistance to kind that the prisoner has from being ignorant to being knowledgeable. The glare afflicting the prisoner announces that the prisoner was figuratively in darkness before and the distress the prisoner experiences is the figure out of learning. The intermediate stage in education is a learning stage of adjusting from ignorance. Through intermediacy was the rise of discernment. Enlightenment symbolizes a phase where knowledge is gained and one is completely informed.Towards the end of The Allegory of the Cave Plato writes, Last of all he will be able to see the sunshine, and not mere reflections of him in the water, but he will see him in his own correct place, and not in another and he will contemplate him as he is. ( 23) In The Allegory of the Cave, the hierarchy of light shows the sun to be at metaphorically the highest level. T he prisoner having the ability to catch sight of the sun reveals that he is enlightened, thus he has gained knowledge to comprehend.The prisoner too experiences a completely new perspective due to the knowledge he gained. Enlightenment is the final complex stage in education where one obtains knowledge. Throughout The Allegory of the Cave, The process of achieving knowledge is through darkness, intermediacy and enlightenment. Darkness consists of barriers that interfere with one pursuit of knowledge. Intermediacy is a learning stage that leads to enlightenment of gaining knowledge. Plato affirmed education as a derange journey.