ABSTRACT
There are two incontrovertible facts about the human condition. One is the immutable individuality of each person, unique in looks, voice and mind. The other is the fact that each individual sensibility is moulded by culture, manifested in language, social attitudes and beliefs. In order to develop a form of education that deals with social issues like bias, taste and prejudice, we need to be able to listen to the individuals, to include their own perspectives on what they experience. Prejudice in the permanent form of the threat of others can emerge from either of these pathological extremes. The home, and what takes place in it, with its psychological spaces and symbolic boundaries, is the seed-bed on which the tendency to prejudice can be grown. Prejudice in terms of categories, or stereotypes, is part of experience. But it can be contained. It can be understood, and it can be controlled.
