where does the path split ???

Plato likens ordinary people to prisoners who have beenchained in a cave in such a way that they can only see the shadows of things on a screen in front of them; they would assume, Plato says, that these shadows were the only real things.Now suppose that one of the prisoners was to be freed andemerged blinking into the light. In time he would come to seereal objects in the world, and understand that what he had seen before were no more than shadows. But if he were then to return to the cave to try to persuade his fellows of their mistake, they would be unlikely to believe him. This, Plato thinks, is the position of the philosopher: he has genuine knowledge while those around him have only distorted opinions, but because the path to philosophical knowledge is long and hard, very few are willing to take it.

D u disagree with plato ?