One or two heritages are worth a ton of education, which was put forward by Hall. This view belongs to the view of genetic determinism and overemphasizes the role of heredity.

Generally speaking, the factors that affect an individual's physical and mental development include heredity, environment, education and individual's subjective initiative. Among them, heredity is the premise of individual physical and mental development, which provides the possibility for individual physical and mental development, but it cannot determine individual development. Individual development is the result of four factors: heredity, environment, education and individual subjective initiative.

brief introduction

Genetic determinism is one of the main viewpoints on children's psychological development in the west from the second half of 19 century to the beginning of the 20 th century.

Genetic determinists unilaterally emphasize the role of heredity in children's psychological development, believing that children's psychological development is determined by innate and unchangeable heredity, and the process of children's psychological development is the process of self-development and self-exposure of these innate heredity, which has nothing to do with external influence and education. Even if external influences and education play a role in children's psychological development, they can only promote or delay the self-development and self-exposure of quality at most, and cannot change its essence.