Nurture or Nature?

I think that in my opinion, nurture is more important than nature. Why? I think that although It may be true that if both parents are graduates, the child would also be able to do well. Given that fact, children who come from less fortunate backgrounds or if their parents aren’t graduates, are still able to do well in society and get into university etc.

Parents in my opinion are the root of this question, because it is them who take care of the child the earliest and also they who teach the children the basics of life. The child learns the most from their parents, so I think that if the child’s parents do not show a good example to the child, wouldn’t it reflect back on the child? It doesn’t matter whether the child is a graduate’s son or a non-graduate’s son. In Singapore at least, everything is based on merit, on how hard you work to achieve a certain goal.

It may be said that the children whose parents are graduates do better than those whose parents are not, but that may not because of the difference in genes, but how each parent takes care of their child. In my opinion, I think that because of education and the nurturing environment in learning, the people who undergo education and become graduates would be more civilized and well mannered than those who did not do as well. Because of this, the graduate parents would be able to bring up their children better, so that they can also do well in their studies.

The nature of things in my opinion is not as important as the nurturing required. Everything is not fixed just because you come from a intelligent descent, but instead on how you choose to live your life.