Read an amazing article in a back issue of New Philosopher Magazine:
"Plato's Cave and The Matrix" by John Partridge in New Philosopher No 1 Aug-Oct 2013 pp 106-110
"...Socrates thought that the unexamined life was not worth living...(and) likened the human condition to the state of prisoners bound in a cave seeing only shadows projected on the wall in front of them. Transcending this state is the aim of genuine education...an upward journey of darkness into light" (P.106)
In the film The Matrix, central character Neo, "...cannot determine which sensory information is genuine and which false" (P.107) So too Plato "...urges us to regard the sensible world as unreliable" (P.107) and here is the role of the teacher:
To help students transcend an insensible world.
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