Knowledge is power, but can be greater by sharing

As i read through The Allegory of the Cave, i first thought it was telling us about fearing the unkown.  when the story began describing how learning and understanding are like turning towards the light, i realized that we all live in the dark until we are brave enough to venture out and grow.  There are periods of adjusting where we may all stumble.  However, we cannot remain in a constant state in either the light or the dark.  At some point, if you are in the light, you must go back into the dark and share what you have learned, help someone else realize that there is more to life and the world than the darkness.  Once we are all on a equal plain and not trying to rise out by ourselves or keep others in prisioned in the dark, we will all be a better people.  It ia kind of amazing to me that 2500 years ago Plato already knew what injustices the world held and how the greed of man could hurt his nieghbors and ultimatly himselve as well.  Maybe someday we could all be an inlightened people and govern our countries fairly and equally.