about the first question.. I think Socrates, He somehow was being narrowminded and stubborn when he suggested that without philosophical education, we are all like prisoners because I believe there are so many aspects to achieve in life and we learn and realize and know myself and world better and through those things we continually grow up physically and mentally change. Not only Philosophy can give us a certain life change experience or give us a significant idea, but also other sources in life can give us a meaningful lesson. And by acknowledging this fact, his idea would've been more effective to people at that time because He, himself mentioned that 'we know nothing' is the key to wisdom and If he acknowledged that, the truth that other factors also can affect in peoples lives and change their mindset and give them a certain wisdom(?), through Dialectic, which means conversation between people, then His idea and philosophy itself would've been more liberating between people.
about last question ... I think He had a right to be pessimistic about life without philosophy. However, He was not right to be pessimistic about it because that means He denied too many things and too many people's lives who just lived and thought differently. We all have our own thoughts and we value things differently that's why so many philosophers existed and have been saying all different things throughout the history. I think he, Socrates valued philosophy way too higher than other things and other people's thoughts and I think in that, he also valued himself better than others as a philosopher who leads people to the wisdom so he basically killed other peoples thoughts in conversations that he made with others.
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