Reflection 13

Plato believed in searching for "absolute truth" which similair to the philosphier socratse had alot to do with the subject of science. Searching for truths that are already there are just looking for things to discover. Things that we discover have always been there we just have not found out the "truth". He also tryed to teach people to believe in ideas and not be so materialistic and this would aid in ultimately finding the truth. He also belived that the people who sought out knowledge and found it successfully had a duty to spread it and/or teach that knowledge to others.
His effect on modern western education has an effect on our teachers alone, they are ones who saught out knowledge and are making us (the people) aware of it. Students are so impressed and enlightened by this knowledge that they in turn continue the chain of student becoming teachers and enlighteneing the ones left int he dark with shallow spaces in their mind. People who are educated like to educate weither they become teacher/professors or not in it part of human nature to want to spread your knowledge onto someone else. It is not rare for someone to want to educate the people that they are around with what they have been shown and taught is a fact that should very well learned. So any uneducated person will learn something if he/she surrounds herself/himself with intellectual minds or encounters someone of a higher IQ eager to show-off their findings of the truth.
Plato put alot of emphasis on teachers and intellectual leaders to teach properly. He felt that philosophers should become leaders or that leaders should become philosphiers for a perfect society to exsist. In modern western education today this stil holds true, intellectual deep and well thought out minds that seek the truth should ultimatley make those decisions that effect our world. Decisions based on facts and critical thinking and a systamatic approach to decison making than an irrational emotion driven decision. We as a people now know that we must educate ourselves in order to choose a proper leader, we must go and seek the education needed to make rational decisions that will help us in the future to become more functional and happy. We can not leave everything up to one specific group of people and hope that it will work out in our favor, for example we can not choose not to vote but then complain about who is in office and what they do with our country.