Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" has as its central image prisoners in a cave, who are chained to a wall and unable to turn their heads. While it is Plato's intention to use these prisoners as a metaphor for persons untutored in the Theory of Forms, they can also be used to apply to students coming to college. College students are the current version of Plato's untutored persons. The fire behind the chained figures can then be seen as the illuminating light of knowledge. This light, when seen only partially, is however likely to induce illusion rather than true knowledge. Thus puppeteers behind the prisoners create illusions with the combined effect of puppets and the fire. This can be seen as representing the limited knowledge gained in life before entering the illuminating environment of college. The shadows and echoes cast by the real objects are taken as real by the prisoners, as they do not know anything beyond that. The chains then represent the limits of ignorance, of which the prisoners do not appear to be aware.
In the same way a student entering college to become an airline pilot has only limited and even illusory knowledge of the world and the various perspectives that are possible to apply to the world. These students are then prisoners as it were to their current worldview, and are unable to escape this until they are shown different ways of viewing things. In Plato's work, the prisoners accept their chains and their limited view of things because they are unaware that anything else exists.
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