Nature or nurture?

This brief formulation of the question of what factors - associated with hereditary or associated with the external environment - play a decisive role in the development of the child. This question has for a long time, occupies the minds of historians and writers, psychologists and scientists concerned with education and child development, not to mention the relatives of geniuses.

Giving priority to nature, we recognize the hereditary essential condition for development. Preferring education to consider the basic condition for development, scientists are actively exploring the environmental factors (mother's behavior, the number of children per family, crowded housing, etc.) and their influence on the process of becoming a child's personality. However, it should be noted that scientists with different views on the fundamental condition of watching the same form of behavior will be completely different description of the processes that led to its development.
For example, a scientist - a supporter of the priority of heredity and biological factors that may explain the fact that pre-schooler to invent imaginary friends, the level of development of the brain and cognitive immaturity. Scientist, highlighting the importance of education, may be called as appropriate behavior, such socio-educational things like isolation, lack of responsiveness on the part of parents or lack of brothers and sisters.
Thus, there is no unity on this issue among scientists. Parents also respond differently to this question, showing diametrically opposite opinions:

    * When I thought about the question, I immediately gets up before the eyes of the Count of Monte Cristo ... After all, brought up as a sailor from a simple Abbe Faria aristocrat ... So I think that more than 70-80% of the individual can lay education.
    * I think education is very important! Moreover, the education of all involved: from the family, continuing to kindergarten-school-host universities, to corporate culture, ie working team and superiors. Thus, I personally believe in the possibility of self-Person. In my opinion, it samovospityvayuschayasya Person has all chances to overcome the "accumulation of past lives, to become the person wants (or rather, such Person Feel its mission - and everything becomes possible!) In short, I want to say that the task of parents is reduced, the Indeed, the education of the child's personality.
    * What to put education in the sense of how to look at him. Because I believe in God, then I believe that in respect of each soul the Lord He has a great divine plan. The task of parents is to unravel the mystery of this idea, but - to create an atmosphere of love, "most favored nation" for the prosperity of each unique flower, the human soul. In this sense, the best results will do, from my point of view, the parent who does not try to break down and build a child deprived of his joy and to lead him by the arm to certain social standards. The first rule of parenting - with joy and excitement to their secondary - that is, to recognize the incredible beauty and the legitimacy of what is already before us is created by God. The second rule - to try to raise the child in the mainstream of the divine plan: to listen to his conscience, for example. And in this way education can bring great benefits ... up to 100%.
    * Since I am a supporter of reincarnation (in the sense of a string of human embodiment), then education - it is nothing more than a cut gem entrusted to us. But this is still very important and responsible task - we can not create in a child life energy, but we can help you choose the vector of its application. In other words, if the accumulation of past lives do not allow the child to be a bright personality, then we can not make him a genius. But if the child laid much, much depends on us - whether it is a genius or a villain.
    * But I'm looking at children. They are perfect by nature. Education as not to spoil ... - Tell my mother of children from two to fifteen years.
As can be seen, the spread of opinions is large and varied: from 70-80% and even 100%, with some reservations, the importance of education to the extent that education can spoil pledged nature.
Interesting opportunity to get an answer to the question of priority may be to study children with the same heredity - the twins.
The history of the relationship to the twins in ancient cultures and modern folklore shows clearly that the attitude towards them in society has always been special. The twins are often attributed to some kind of special abilities, they were revered, but on the other hand, the fact of birth "the same people" are sometimes seen almost a curse of the powers. For example:

    * The tribes of Indians of British Columbia believe that twins bring good luck. It was believed that after the birth of twins, nature has generously bestowed people with fish and game.
    * North American Indians moyavy thought that the twins are subject to natural disasters. Ordinary people are attached to these abilities, the graves of twins splashing water.
    In India, representatives of ethnic Hund believed that twins protect them from the weather. To provide better protection, buttocks twins were stained in black and white.
    * Balineziytsy made with twins complicated purification rituals in honor of the equilibrium that exists in nature.
Twins are usually, as it were closed on each other, so sometimes they have almost no need arises to communicate either with adults or other children. For example, they begin to talk later than normal kids, but not because they were lagging behind in mental development: they have developed their own poluverbalnye, polutaktilnye communication system, which at a certain stage of development are enough for them. But with the further development of the child as a member of the team all this is unnecessary, and even - dangerous. Therefore, the twins need special attention from the adult members of society.
Another fact in favor of the priority of education can become children reared animals. Let us recall the example of Mowgli, who was a child of normal parents, but was in an abnormal environment for themselves and somehow managed to adapt to it, but man alone could not be. That means education is more important than heredity?
Probably, yes. Situation where children were left in the woods and there they survived, actually observed in history, though rarely, and it is important to note the analysis of such cases, it is absolutely normal child normal parents usually do not leave the forest. Opposed to the "Mowgli" may be "Tarzan", due to heredity, an English lord, for example, without hearing a human voice, learn to read and speak, seeing the text. And the "Mowgli" and "Tarzan" - a fairy tale. In some of them a hint? However, unfortunately, real life stories of child Mowgli indicate that a child under a certain age bereft of the human environment, can not continue to fully adapt to life in society.
Value education and the natural inclinations directly adjacent to the theme of children's gifts. Can I raise a gifted child in a certain area?
According to various researchers of the phenomenon of giftedness were identified features characteristic for the majority of gifted children:

    * Early in the captured knowledge in his chosen field.
    * Display a high intellect, good memory.
    * There were passionate about their work, energetic.
    * Demonstrate a pronounced independence, the desire to work alone, individualism.
    * Able to control themselves.
    * Have the desire to contact with other gifted, young and adults.
    * Able to extract lessons learned and quickly acquire an artistic and intellectual experience.
The resulting list of traits of potential creators are difficult to interpret unequivocally as a nested nature or nurtured upbringing. High intellect and good memory - the quality of birth, and as for the ability to control themselves - whether it is possible here to say for sure?Ratio of inherited and educational factors
My oldest son 10 years with his dad did not live 8.5 years. Never since he had not spoken with the Pope. But the main features of the human personality all daddy (because of what his father and broke up), but was brought on entirely different moral framework. I have now had a child from his second marriage. With her husband live for 5 years. Ie He found the child still at an age when its formation could be influenced. My family (parents, sister, her family, her children) also are near, we all somehow on the same wavelength and are trying to instill the son of other human values. And his son is still clearly seen personality traits of his father.
Influence of environment and heredity - are the two most important factors determining the development of the child, but it is difficult to say which of them is in this case is more important. But the problem is both a problem and a purely scientific, and social, because of how it will be resolved, ultimately depends on the future of society itself.
From all this we may conclude that - intelligence and individual abilities may be inherited, and to develop, but personality as such, as a system of ethical values ​​- is the product of a purely social. That is why, perhaps, training and education of young generation in society has always been given so much attention.