figured out with time and at some point everyone discovers it in different way. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, prisoners were deprived of the knowledge about the world and the knowledge that they did receive was given to them forcefully. Dragging the slave outside the cave represented a teacher figure and without this teacher figure, the slave would not have been able to gain any knowledge. On the contrary, in Frederick Douglass’s Learning to Read and Write, he had a thirst for knowledge and endangered…
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