When adapting lessons into a truly free classroom, some aspects of learning can be painful as students take control of their own learning. It takes time for students to see the benefits of these strategies and they may feel that this type of learning is inappropriate; as the teacher facilitates power sharing rather than the top-down power advocated by behaviorist BF Skinner (1965). However, learning will happen and students will thrive as they create a real, authentic environment in which their life experiences are valued. In Plato's allegory of the cave, when we come out of the cave, we see the sun in its true and real form and not as an image (Plato,1992). This reality could be compared to the image of the teacher and students detached from the outside world. Similar to the shadows on the cave wall, the teacher is a shadow and the students remain inside the cave, knowing only the reality of the cave. By providing student-centered lessons, accepting and encouraging peer interaction and imitative learning, and embracing the outside world, I can help transform the student so that he or she can transform his or her external community (Brookfield