Why do people differ??
The dawn of the time , people have thought differently , acted differently and fared differently from each other.
It was guaranteed that someone would ask the question of why people differed? Why some peolple smarter and more moral and what made them permanently different .
1.Some claimed that strong physical basis for this difference .
2.Other pointed to the strong difference in people background ,experience ,training, or ways of learing. Education and practice could bring about fundamental chages in intelligence .
WHO'S RIGHT??
Today most experts agree that it's not either-or. It's not a nature ,genes ,or environment . From conception on there's constant give and take betwwen two.
In fact gilbert gottlieb an eminent neuroscientist ,put it , not only genes and enviroment cooparetes as we develop, but gene require input from the environment to work properly.
At the same time scientists are learning that people have more capacity for lifelong learning and brain development then they ever thought.
Of course, each person has a unique genetic endowment .people may strat with different temperaments and different aptitudes, but it is clear that experience, training, are personal effort take them the rest of way.
Robert sternberg , the present day guru of intelligence ,write that major factor in whether people achive expertise "is not some fixed prior ability but purposeful engangment."
Also the forerunner Binet recognize ,
"It's not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest".
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