In other words... you become educated by the other people who populate your world -- family, friends, coworkers. Thus its their words and opinions that form the

In other words... you become educated by the other people who populate your world -- family, friends, coworkers. Thus its their words and opinions that form the basis for your beliefs and your world view. You don't shape your world view as much as your familiars do. No doubt in today's world where so much info/opinion can be self-selected (you tune into media of your own choosing), each of us do shape our own world more than in olden times. But I suspect we surround ourselves with media that resonates positively with the people we share our lives with. Otherwise if you adopt perspective arising from those 'foreign' ideas, you run the risk of clashing with the ideas of friends & family, thereby making you unpopular, dismissed, and even shunned. Thus we adopt the ideas that reward us most, socially.