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Plato's Allegory of the Cave

The New Thinkery

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The Importance of Education in Socratic Philosophy

"This is not going to take me outside of the cave and I came out of his basement and it was just in the backyard. He was just **** some cheese," Alex says, before Greg takes him to town. "Socratic dialectics is trying to get people to recognize that the shadows they're looking at are shadows," he adds. 'It's a sort of trying to get the student to look at the right things'

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