ABSTRACT

It has been said that the heritability of learning ability or of intelligence is irrelevant to teachability, or as the Bulletin of the ERIC Information Retrieval Center on the Disadvantaged (1969, 4, no. 4) printed in boldface: ‘Teachability is not a function of heritability’. In support of this statement we see it pointed out that a child or a group of children show some response to training, and this is held up as evidence against the heritability of intelligence or learning ability.