Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-form, and my own special world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and yes, even beggar-man, and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocation, and race of his ancestors. I am going beyond my facts and I admit it, but so have advocates of the contrary and they have been doing it for many thousands of years.


Watson’s theory, in my opinion, is making assumptions and


having overconfidence in a decision. His theory is consumed in the topic of


nature vs. nurture. There’s a possibility that he could actually do what he


said but the simple fact that it wasn’t proven or hasn’t been proved remains.


I agree to his theory up to a certain aspect. I believe that a child does


become what he/she is by the simple fact of how they are nurtured or......

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