I was just watching a programe on BBC and it was very intresting.

It was about how the enviroment stumilates the intellegence of the baby. ALthough a baby might be born intellegent, but how his parents helps him to develop these intellegence is what could help him be a geniuse when he grows up.

Whats your opinion on this? do you think that an intellegent kid will continue be intellegent if he did not find the right parents?? or a less intellegent kid could preform good in his school if he found support from his parents?

arbprnces both can happens, both genetic and environmental theories of intillegent are proven...

but my openion is more for the second :"or a less intellegent kid could preform good in his school if he found support from his parents?
becoz that is what really happned to me,, i believe the environment made me like to be intillegent... the story has started long time ago and i still remember it well..
when i was in my 2nd elimentary school, i was not that good student and i thought reading is boring and i did not even hold books.. but oneday, my dad give me a lecture with support and he helped me in reading the book IQRA and remember the session it was about trafic lights... thenext day after my dad lecture i went to the class and that class was the shift in my life cos the teacher impressed by my reading and moved me from the back row till frint and he says good students always sit at front line..

and i got a message from one of the teacher which i always say it to my friend is that :" god gaves us all an organ called the brain, and everyone has it ( hope so :D ) and it has same structure in all of us... thus there is no stupid or intillegent person but there is a difference between someone knows how to use it and someone does not, "

Intresting Fahad, but maybe ur story was the other wya around. You were a very intellegent person and your father and teacher helped you bring out this intellgence !! right?

Well that what makes the issue of intellegence very complicated, even if research is done, it cannot prove much everything because I dont think that IQ can be tested when the child is born which gives then the ability that the child might have learnt something from the enviroment which couldnt be controlled by the docter!!

but one important thing, enviroment does affect the ability to think and I think parents should know that before even the child is born. When he is in mom's womb, the mother and the father should try to stumulate him by reading to him, singing to him and ofcourse before all read Quran to him. That all could help the kid be more intellegent when he starts talking, walking and going to school.

i agree with u AB, but u c, i dont believe in every one being granted the same intelligence, i see this everyday between my 2 brothers ( they only have one year difference in age), the oldest of the two, hes very, quiet, and hard working, but he brings lowe grades, and even when i explain him something, it takes me twice the time to make him understand than it would have taken to explain it to the younger brother whose very playfull, never touches a book, and brings much better grades than his elder bro.

so u c , i think intelligence of a person depends much more on the brain , and less on enviromental influence. i think, enviromental and parental influence can only affect an indiviuals intelligence at a small scale, the rest depends on the indiviual's IQ level.

Seniora,
The enviromental infunce starts in a very early age, maybe your parnets gave your younger bro more attention than the one elder than him. Or maybe what he used to eat was more nutritious when was younge more than what the eldest bro.
My poin of view, is that it is hard to tell what actually happnes, there are many variables to control and this makes the research hareder!!

I think this is an intresting thread that wasnt discussed enough ;)