Plato: Allegory
Plato: Allegory and Reminiscence
Plato’s most famous teaching device is a story about prisoners chained in a cave. His most famous theory of how students actually learn is a doctrine that says knowledge is remembered, not received. This chapter walks through both, with the second following from the first.
Prisoners chained in darkness, the steep path out, and the meaning Plato gives the story: ignorance, apathy, and the dialectic as the path to enlightenment
Socrates as the prisoner who escaped, and the philosopher’s duty to return to the cave to free others even at the cost of death
Knowledge as rediscovery rather than creation, souls loaded with what they have forgotten, and the slave boy who already knew Pythagoras
The teacher’s job, on this doctrine, is to lead pupils to recall what their souls once knew. What this means for everyday teaching
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