Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

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Plato on education

Dr. Stephen Hicks discusses Plato’s views on education, with special focus on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave from The Republic and its implications for education. This is from Part 7 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course.

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Tags: Allegory of the Cave, Plato, Republic