If I can construct only one rectification in the American educational system, it would be to test students based on creativity rather than memorization. Too many students focus on receiving good grades by studying the material. However, exams should test student's creative skills rather than memorization skills. There are better reasons for studying philosophy, nature of knowledge, reality, and existence. Therefore, I will want to learn those aspects of life to comprehend the things I see around me and the reasoning behind almost everything. I do agree that Socrates is the father of western philosophy because he spoke openly to young Athenians and his students, most notably Plato, who would ultimately spread the ideas of Socrates throughout …show more content…
I find that I often do that method myself to find the logic and accuracy of something.
Plato believed that there was another realm of existence where objects he called "forms"or "ideals" subsisted. This realm was thought to be inaccessible to normal human action. Idealism is different from Realism because idealism is behavior or thought based on a conception of things as they should be, or as one would wish to be, with a tendency to be imaginary or visionary. Whereas, Realism is behavior or thought based on a conception of things as they are, regardless of how one wants them to be with a tendency to be practical and pragmatic.
I do think that it fairly expresses the way we experience knowledge because the prisoners have been in the cave since childhood, and they have simply exposed shadows of things passing by them. Therefore, that have only the closest thing to reality. The level that I'm on in society in general, I feel like I'm advanced because I have experience it all. When I was younger, I used to have questions about the world. Now, since I ask millions of questions to people have given me insight to my questions. Thus, I have figured out a lot of things about reality and the