Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

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Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Today, those grim traits grip otherwise intelligent individuals, stealing their impact on the world and filling them with a false sense of superiority and ill-guided righteousness, halting any progress towards their ultimate goal. Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" highlights and condemns this dire effect. By nature, people learn in small steps, thus building complex concepts with numerous, small blocks of understanding. Therefore, humanity struggles to comprehend massive concepts with alternate approaches, mainly due to a lack of problem-solving and critical thinking skills at young ages. Governments oblige children to attend school, constructing a basis for further learning to develop those skills. Unfortunately, knowledge also grows one's ego, compelling one to refuse any topic they fail to immediately understand. By tackling new subjects, one must form a new basis of understanding, such as learning to program without prior experience with computers. In sharing the "Allegory of the Cave," Plato aims to shred away the reader's ignorance and to revive open-mindedness.

For the span of their lives, the cave dwellers persist within the confined underground world. Over time, they learn the basics
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Too regularly do I dismiss inventive ideas in favor of the tried-and-true; so I am scared to leave my own "cave." Frequently, an efficient, tested approach leads to success, though I am envious as I witness the triumph of a beautifully crafted, innovative solution. For instance, in science classes, I gravitate towards the easy design of the everyday catapult, while a few others may devise an astounding miniature cannon. As such, I prefer the option to produce the safest mark. Nonetheless, I respect and admire those daring enough take riskier approaches, inspiring me every day to bring it a step