At each stage of development the child needs different resources from the family. During the first year, a variety of experience and the availability of the parents for attachment are primary. During the second and third years, stimulation of language development is critical. During the years prior to school entrance, information that persuades children they are loved becomes critical, and during the school years it is important for children to believe that they can succeed at the tasks they want to master.
Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form. - Jerome Kagan
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
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…
During the latency years, American children need experiences that promote academic talents, a sense of responsibility, and most important, a belief t… - Jerome Kagan
During the latency years, American children need experiences that promote academic talents, a sense of responsibility, and most important, a belief t…
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
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…
After hunger, a human's most important need is to know what is virtuous. - Jerome Kagan
After hunger, a human's most important need is to know what is virtuous.
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
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…
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
At each stage of development the child needs different resources from the family. During the first year, a variety of experience and the availability…
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
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 …
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
No one has found a gene for IQ. "Heritability" means that identicial twins are more similar than fraternal twins, right? Fraternal twins more similar…
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