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Plato's Allegory Of The Cave: A Metaphor For Education

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Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” is a metaphor for education, and every object and character represents something in the education system. The cave itself, where the prisoners live, is a question of reality. Furthermore, the cave may symbolize a school, as students learn everything in school like the prisoners learned everything in the cave. The puppeteers are teachers because they teach and control the prisoners like teachers teach and control students. The prisoners are the students because the prisoners are stuck in the cave and learn from the puppeteers like students must attend school and learn from teachers. The shadows on the wall are similar to the basic subjects students learn in school. The prisoners only learned from the
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