"Education is not putting sight into blind eyes, as some claim. It is the art of turning an eye that can already see toward the right direction."
Lift your head and look for 10 seconds in a direction you rarely look—up, to the side, or behind you. What newly catches your eye?
How to leave the cave: not new eyes, but turning your head
After watching his teacher Socrates be sentenced to death by the citizens of Athens, Plato made one question his life's work: why do people fail to see the truth? He founded the Academy on the outskirts of Athens and taught there for decades.
In the 'Allegory of the Cave' in the Republic, chained prisoners see only shadows on a wall and believe that is the whole world. Plato argued that what they need is not new eyes, but a 'turning around'—the whole body rotating toward the light.