What are the aims of ToK?

• To help us to discover the richness of knowledge, and to realize how empowering knowledge can be.
• To examine how knowledge is built up, examined, and evaluated by individuals and societies.
• To reflect on how we learn – both inside and outside school – and to make links between the academic disciplines and our thoughts, feelings and actions.
• To reinforce the idea that there are many different ways of thinking and perspectives, and assumptions we have because of our cultural and individual positions may obscure the way we see the world.
• To suggest some of the responsibilities that may come with knowledge.