Compare Plato’s Cave Allegory with modern American Education. Is today’s populace living in “darkness” – ignorance – the way Socrates portrays the Athenians and himself in a “cave”? If they exist, what would represent the cave metaphores (prisoners, their chains, and the shadow and echo images, the puppetmasters, the light outside the cave (The Good) suggest today?
Discuss any other contemporary symbolism from the cave.
This is an opinion essay.
Plato want you to think about your life, education, society – past or present – and ask yourself if you live a life of appearances, deception or self deception, and are missing the true realty or meaning of life.


