Steve:

If in your last post "environment" means "culture" then we agree. If it means the location of the house, the luxuriousness of the furnishings, the number of bathrooms, the presence or lack of big screen HDTV then we disagree.

But culture matters. Bad culture matters. Good culture matters.

Good parenting matters. Bad parenting matters.

Reading to the toddlers matters. Not reading to the toddlers matters.

If you can get fundamental reading skills and fundamental math skills into them many kids can learn for the rest of their lives. If you miss the reading skills they are doomed to a life of being poor. Math is very important but if they can read they can even catch up there.

Learning how to learn at an early age pays a lifetime of dividends. Failure to learn how to learn costs them for the rest of their life.

IQ actually measures how fast one learns. High IQ means fast learner. Low IQ means slow learner. So the IQ tests do not have a racial bias.

Last edited by AmarilloMike; 06/08/15 07:25 PM.

I am glad to be here.