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 INTELLIGENCE BY NATURE OR NURTURE

Every child is born with god gifted instinctive intelligence. He has natural inborn tendency to behave in a certain way without reasoning or training. He has the sense that makes him choose to act in a particular way. When he sees his mother’s face, he smiles.  He has the intelligence to recognize his mother. He feels the warmth of his mother’s love. He cries when he feels pain or hunger. When his stomach is full, he turns his face away from milk. Similarly, a child’s inborn intelligence gives him the sense of fear, joy or sorrow.  However, all these intelligence bestowed upon him by nature is of some limitation. His intelligence gradually nurtures as he grows up and as per his environment.

As a child grows up, he learns to mumble words and name spoken to him by his mother or other near ones.  He also learns to name the things he sees. Then his schooling comes. He goes outside in a bigger world than his home, where he is taught to learn how to read and write. There he also gets the chance to nurture his intelligent quotient by playing with toys of certain shapes and setting some puzzles.

At the same time, he also learns how to behave and act in his home with parents and other households. His personality and character nurtured by his training and education given to him by his parents, teachers and other elders. He learns the norms of his family’s customs and tradition as well as the traditions of his society to which he belongs.

The positive and negative impacts on his intelligence, whether an individual bears a high average or low intelligence, depend upon the environment he is living in. If the environment is healthy and civilized, then most of the chances are that an individual living in such environment will have a great intelligence and strong character, which plays a positive role in the society. It may happen vice verse in case an individual does not have a healthy and civilized environment. In such case, the intelligence developed is of an average or low level. However, it may miraculously have some exceptional cases.

In conclusion, we may say that a human being has some inborn intelligence. Most of the adult and mature part of his life, the intelligence he has is nurtured; the intelligence he develops by training, knowledge and learning from his environment. From this, he chooses his career and ways through which he would be of any help for the development of his nation.