The similarities in views on the education of Plato and Lewis are based on common philosophical approaches. Both believe that education is the formation of the human soul through the knowledge of reality in its entirety. They believe that there is a spiritual reality other than empirical reality, which gives empirical reality meaning and norm. Thinkers also agree that the formation of the true nature of man, the acquisition of human nature are the main goals of education.

Lewis C. S., Plato, education, realism, cognition, Myth of the cave