"The young can't distinguish what is allegorical from what isn't, and the opinions they absorb at that age are hard to erase and apt to become unalterable". 2 Plato explains that their understanding of events become unchangeable as they are shaped from a young age, as he states that "we'll persuade nurses and mothers to tell their children the [stories] we have selected, since they will shape their children's souls with stories" (Republic 377b). ... The myth of metals which is also commonly referred to as the noble lie is a description of a structure of ...

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