Point of View
Once upon a time there were six blind men who all lived in the same town. One day the circus came to town and the men went to see the elephant. But how could they? The first man said, “We can feel him.”
“That’s a great idea!” said the rest.
We reflected on how our experience may be different from someone else’s in the same situation and how our truth may only be a part of the whole picture. At which point, one student said, “That’s like Plato’s Cave.” The other students leaned in with interested, questioning expressions. The student explained how the people in Plato’s Cave were shackled to the cave wall and could only see the shadows of reality, never the true, authentic reality. “They could never see what was really going on.”
Wow. I was impressed with this student’s insight and I was equally impressed by the rapt, respectful attention of the other students.
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