Week 2: Dragged out of the cave

Socrates describes the student’s experience of education with undergoing a painful journey full of pain, self-doubt, and struggle, analogous to being ‘dragged’ out of a cave toward the light. In our current age, I feel that this transformative form of learning is still a very good representation of acquiring, understanding and applying new knowledge. This is because I believe that true deep learning requires, at least in part, the student to undergo a temporary period of confusion and struggle prior to grasping new concepts. This is especially true in contexts where the goal is to facilitate…