"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 detect it when you're living in a deprived environment."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Jerome Kagan

#Powerful Quotes #Flower Quotes #People Quotes

“If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.”
“The law is where reality goes to die.”
“Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were flawed, all were equally doomed to suffering, mostly because they couldn't see that they were all alike. Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely. They did enjoy killing one another and frequently came up with ingenious excuses for doing so on a grand scale-religions, economic theories, ethnic pride-but we couldn't condemn them for it, as it was in their mortal natures and they were too stupid to know any better.”

Source : Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.51, Macmillan
“Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person-flawed, complex, striving-you've reached beyond stereotype.”

Source : Hazel Rochman (1993). “Against Borders: Promoting Books for a Multicultural World”, Chicago : American Library Association
“If you don't see anything wrong with your game, you need to wake up.”
“I just can't help but see things differently.”
“There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.”
“All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.”

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