Although I agree with Bob Compton’s point in the documentary film Two Million Minutes: A Case In Point that Americans are lazy and should spend a little more time on their studies instead of spending it on going to parties and other social activities, I do not believe that students in other countries are doing better than we are. I believe that all countries need some work and none of them are perfect. Our work needed might just be in different areas. It is important to be well-rounded instead of solely
of many intellectual conversation. Plato makes an allegory of a cave. He makes a vivid picture of what it’s like to live in a dark cave and only know the shadows you see on the wall. He then gives an example of one person who left the cave and returns to it, but the world he sees is ignorant now. At first Plato writes, “...do you think they would believe that anything other than the shadow passing in front of them was speaking” (p. 1)? Once the man leaves the cave, he sees the sun and all the