Weekly Genetics Quote #26: Anxious Parents

I can’t help but feature Anxious Parents: A History Of Modern Childrearing In America by Peter N. Stearns yet again. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that a book about families should include references to genes.

Aptitude tests could in fact be prepared for; hence the proliferation of test tutoring and pressures on instructors to teach for the test. Even if tests measured raw aptitude, there was always the question of whether parents had provided good genes or done enough to ensure learning-intensive early years.

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