Plato and education

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[...] Plato and education Creationism was the prevalent education style used to explain how the Earth came to be and how humans came to be. When the theory of Evolution came into being, teachers began telling students about it. Obviously there was an enormous amount of reluctance to teach this new idea as well as learn and accept it. This is one of the first well-documented examples of people's reluctance to a new idea, which was extremely controversial yet eventually gained much acceptance and popularity. [...]

[...] A student must trust the teacher and what he or she is telling that student. However, Bain asserts that the students must be interested and engage the teacher in questioning why this is true. By doing this, students are allowed to think on their own and pull their own truth from what they've learned and what the teacher is telling them. The teacher is there as an educated informer- sent to deliver a message, but not enforce it. Students need to put aside what they've learned in the past, momentarily, to fully understand what their teacher is explaining to them. [...]

[...] This is linked to The Allegory of the Cave by Plato when those who have been chained to the rock in the cave are released and wander up and out of the cave. Plato writes that when one of the cave dwellers is released and gets out of the cave he “believes the things he saw before to be more true than what was being pointed out to him now [outside of the We would not accept this as the truth. [...]