For Plato, education is a matter of leading a person from mere belief to true knowledge. Plato suggests education is breaking free from what is not real. As in the "Allegory of the Cave," what is known to be real is not known by the prisoners. They see the shadows on the wall, but that is only what their minds want them to believe. The cave presents the " two levels of knowing," the intelligible realm and the visible realm. The in
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