Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
We must be engineers of souls.
Vladimir Lenin
So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later.
Kids are sponges. They will emulate what they see and what they're exposed to.
What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.
A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.
If someone arrives, fully functional yet a tabula rasa, how does their environment influence, educate, even mold them? And if that is a nurture question, then where does that character's nature fit in? How does that manifest?
We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.
