Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.

- Jerome Kagan

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, maybe unique in the…

- Jerome Kagan

During the latency years, American children need experiences that promote academic talents, a sense of responsibility, and most important, a belief t…

- Jerome Kagan

The fundamental problem is that the gap in educational achievement, which is a key in our technological economy, is due in my opinion - and the opini…

- Jerome Kagan

After hunger, a human's most important need is to know what is virtuous.

- Jerome Kagan

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 way out is to sa…

- Jerome Kagan

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 …

- Jerome Kagan

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

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