Plato ’ s Cave to Unite Americans
attaining levels of understanding most people may not have the interest in pursuing or the capacity to absorb .
Those so selected may be encouraged to establish copycat sites that evolve to their interests and that of those in their social networks . Those in their networks that want to pursue similar depths are free to do so . Nevertheless , many are satisfied with tweets . Twitter is used to share thoughts , known as tweets , in 140 characters or less . The quality of knowledge gained by a tweet can be believed to be high based on trust . Alternatively , it may be a bit of information that tells more about the sender than about the purported knowledge conveyed . In any case , the receiver of information from social networks goes to some stage of reasoning and trust in selecting what to think .
The point is that there may be many wisdom challenged decisions being made based upon poor information and questionable knowledge . A better education of the populace is essential to a better functioning of a democratic society . It also holds that a better education of the leaders is essential . Furthermore , if they are not quite educable , there are likely to be more knowledgeable ones available .
That activity of learning and choosing is a process centered in the mind . The electorate in a democracy needs to use more of their capacity to enable them to produce better reasoning performance . Using more of that capacity is enabled through education in one form or another .
Now is the time for an innovation in education that goes well beyond the traditional hierarchical structures and moves into the third wave of the internet and capitalizes on Plato ’ s wisdom , “ No knowledge considers or prescribes for the advantage of the stronger , but for that of the weaker , which it rules ” ( Plato , 2008 , p . 17 ).
Acknowledgements
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