Eyes Wide Open By Richard Powers - 1272 Words

â€Å"Eyes Wide Open† by Richard Powers discusses ways of education in the past one thousand years and strives to find the necessary things needed to improve it in the next thousand years. Three assertions he closed the piece with are â€Å"asking not how things ought to be but how things are,† â€Å"finding out not what we should do with the world, but what we can make the world do,† and â€Å"the next thousand years must make up the difference, returning subtlety and richness and morals and lightness of spirit to the long human experiment, if any part of it is to survive.† Plato, Pierce, Whitehead, Bloom and many others have commented on this idea of how knowledge and education were and/or how it should continue to be. In my opinion, the idea of science behind everything is necessary and most likely enough to lead us toward the best form of education for the next millennium. The importance of looking at the world of â€Å"how things are, not how things ought to be,† is an controversial part of taking the step toward the ideal future of education that I and many writers would agree with. â€Å"†¦if the time required for readjustment was not short wouldn’t he provoke ridicule? Wouldn’t it be said of him that he had returned form his upward journey with his eyes ruined, and that it is not worthwhile even to try to travel upward?† (Plato 2). By asking these obvious questions throughout â€Å"The Allegory of the Cave,† Plato shows that the ideal situation is not always the outcome. In this case, after theShow MoreRelatedGlobal Warming And Climate Change1332 Words   |  6 Pagestwentieth century. Human pollution and consumption began in the eighteenth century due to the industrial revolution (Richard Smith). There is a huge difference in what scientists have studied and what is out in pop culture. 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I continued to stand in the same spot and directed my eyes towards the sky, noticing and appreciating the sun’s valiant effort to emerge amongst the clouds as its rays seeped through and stretched across the muggy terrain. It was almost as if, despite the clouds’ efforts to sheath the sun to keep it from the