Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

My ideal educational system is to challenge my students to learn by exploring their immediate environment. I want to help them discover their full potential as students, working individually, and as group members. I want them to feel part of the community that they live in. My educational system will consist of an early education and freedom of learning. According to Plato’s views the education process, would begin at a young age (Week 1, Study Notes, p 6). Plato’s view is really important in today’s education. He believed that it was crucial for children to enter school at the age of six because attitudes of later life are formed in those years. Also because children have to learn reading, writing and counting before they enter a more complicate sector of education. During their early years of formation, children have to develop, cultivate habits, and dispositions that will support them in their society later on. After children have gained that knowledge and skills they will be able to enter into a lifelong learning process. I agree with Plato because if children receive early education, they are

I know that people have to interact with the real world in order to learn about it. While I was reading about the Allegory of the Cave I remembered a bad experience that I had during my high school years. My ESL teacher kept her students like prisoners in the cave. She did not like her students to look for information besides the information she gave us. If we wanted to learn new verbs or new words on our own and she found out she would punish us. She thought that her method was the only way to learn something new. We as educators should give our students the opportunity to go out of the cave to explore the real world. I do not like to chain my students down and make them learn whichever way I want them to. I want them to explore, examine, analyze and learn in their own