"In order to find out how things really are, one must understand the filters through which one perceives the world" Discuss and evaluate this claim.

Men perceive the world around them through the means of emotion, reason, language and perception. It is through these means that men learn, perfect and extend their areas of knowing. But the world in which one has lived, the culture and the society where one grew up create filters through which he will perceive the world. These social filters are coloring his personal ways of knowing: they will give a particular flavour to the way …

…first persons to induce certain filters. The parents themselves are controlled and biased by society, culture and language and therefore all of the above comes to influence every stage of education. Hence the importance of an education that is open to the differences between various cultures, social groups, classes of society and which has as objective to help people reduce the filters they are subjected to en enlarge and objectivates their perception of the world.