Thanks, sounds like a simple approach. I like those. This has to do with the nature of reality. The only value of this allegory to an FYI course that I can see is to contrast two different approaches to how we gain knowledge. If so, then education is mind training - rote learning, etc.
Education then becomes a process of guiding students in discovery.
This is overly simplified. I use the allegory in a freshman Fine Arts class to help students understand the basis of Plato's censorship of the arts, as well as the bvasis of 20th century censorship. Hello FYE Friends, I am conducting some research for Purdue University's Summer Start program. It is essentially a summer bridge program that gives students the opportunity to start their freshman year a couple of months early in order to ease their transition to college and hopefully increase graduation numbers over time. It is open to all incoming freshman and is not targeted at any specific group.