Author: Dave Stawinski

We've talked about Discovery before. I wanted to take a second to approach the more philosophical side of the topic. In Plato's Republic, we find the "Allegory of the Cave." Long story short, it's a little parable he uses to describe education. It's a little cynical, and the upshot is: Your education is no more than an attempt by your gray matter to make sense of shadows on the wall of a cave in which you are imprisoned, the shadows themselves created in the least precise possible way, and by people who could not care less about helping you find truth.