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When we were discussing is the idea that the senses give our mind a picture, either a visual picture, an auditory picture, or one made up of information from other senses, like olfactory, taste, or tactile.   Your mind doesn’t have its own private pair of eyes, however. Therefore, the mind can’t be looking at the "picture" that the senses give.   So, it’s that all of our perception is driven/colored/guided by our own interests, needs, aims, and sometimes even biases--which is why we all perceive different things.

I wonder, then--and I'm not very educated in this subject at all--how this could be applied to things such as the No Child Left Behind Act, where every student is held to a new, higher level of accountability.  Isn't the perception of our brains, which is so different and varies from individual to individual, a bit contradictory to the entire purpose of this act?  It seems to me that education would fare better if it took into account the difference of perception that we learned from regarding how vision and brain work together.