The Allegory of the Cave is an image of ignorant humanity. The cave itself represents ignorance, to which mankind is chained. We are all born into this state of inexperience, similar to the prisoners who are unaware of their own limited perspective. They sit chained to this wall searching for the truth, yet they only acquire the shadow of truth. Most people do not want to believe what is true. They are secure being chained …showed first 75 words of 410 total…

…showed last 75 words of 410 total…e light of reality and truth. Education is not a process of receiving knowledge into inexperienced minds, but discovering what one already knows. The significance of The Allegory of the Cave is that there are truths incapable of being conquered underneath the illusory surface of things, which only the enlightened can comprehend. We would be mistaken if we thought that the concepts we grasp were on the same level as the things we perceive. ------------------------------------------------------------------------