reflective #13

Plato ideas impacted modern western education by as a child you are taught to dream big. Along the way your writing becomes your inspirations and what you write is what you imagine happening or hope to happen, this was one of Plato’s ideas the apprehension of pure sense images. Another impact was comparing objects to nouns and using metaphors. This was Plato perceptive knowledge of sensible objects. We use it in every day life, using words “of”, “like”, or “as”. This is especially useful in poetry and trying to convey the message. As for Plato idealism, he believed that the truth is in all things. You are not only taught to speak the truth at home, but during your life time it is suppose to carry out and become habit. Plato goal for reaching eternal truth and perfection is unrealistic. Yet Plato had taught us through his truth that we can create goals for our future, and create morals. Plato believed that math was the essential to truth, that sense math has a problem and a solution to each equations then so should the human race. Unfortunately as the human race evolved so did the math problems. There are more complex problems, in a math problem there isn’t always a solution. School teaches you good, and bad, and right from wrong. Plato believed that good was the source of all true knowledge. Good comes to us in different forms. Whether it is through a person, an action, or words good as evolved and interoperation comes into effect. To become a teacher your record must be cleared. In order to teach what you know and lead generation after generation you have to set an example. Good can only come when you layout certain restrictions so the outcome will become a good one. Plato thought that “people should embrace ideas and reject matter to progress toward the good.” When people reject matter and embrace ideas things become unstable. The thing with the human mind is that everyone can retain the same information and take different outcomes from it. This is not a bad thing, using interpretation and opening up people minds allows us to widen our society and accept different out comes or allow us to expand on different possibilities. Being open minded doesn’t always lead to possibilities; some can break an old habit. For example young boys were taught from day one competition the desire to be the best you must beat the best. Plato believed that just being opened minded means that this clears the way of being selfish and clears the desire to win. Allowing yourself to be open minded you have to have a critical focus of what others believe and what they do, not to mention why they do it and how it benefits them and their culture. In school you are presented with different race and ethnicity, you are exposed to something new each day. As teachers, they are taught to accept different cultures, yet you can only accept if you understand why they do the things they do, which is when your open mind comes to play. As for Plato reminisce he argues that the Socrates believed that “man cannot enquire either about what which he knows, or about what which he does not know; for if he knows, he has no need to enquire: and if not, he cannot; for he does not know the very subject.” This relates to education, because it’s as simple as that, you either knows your material or you don’t. Life has no time for you second guessing yourself, and neither does your teacher.