Genes do make a contribution to the IQ score - but a flower needs soil. The environment for poor people is so overwhelmingly powerful, it washes out the genetic effect. There is a genetic contribution to IQ, but you can't… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
At each stage of development the child needs different resources from the family. During the first year, a variety of experience and the availability… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form. — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
Well, if you can't then write in the press or put on television the importance of parents changing what they're doing, then the safe… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
No one has found a gene for IQ. "Heritability" means that identicial twins are more similar than fraternal twins, right? Fraternal twins more similar… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem is that the gap in educational achievement, which is a key in our technological economy, is due in my opinion -… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
All the work on heritability was never based on looking at genes; it was based on the similarity between identical twins or between parents… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
During the latency years, American children need experiences that promote academic talents, a sense of responsibility, and most important, a belief that they can… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
After hunger, a human's most important need is to know what is virtuous. — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
We don't want to blame the victim. The civil rights movement had a profound effect on the United States and on the American mind,… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
Although humans inherit a biological bias that permits them to feel anger, jealousy, selfishness and envy, and to be rude, aggressive or violent, they… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
Genes do make a contribution to the IQ score - but a flower needs soil. The environment for poor people is so overwhelmingly powerful,… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
