On origins of knowledge

As many of the philosophers and developmental psychologists, we can see that Descartes thought and worked on the origins of knowledge. As we spoke in the class there is a big debate over the years about whether the genius comes from genes or experience. There are lots of ideas and experiments on this matter. Some include the ability of language. Language is a very curious thing because every young human being learns it and our ability to learn a new language decreases when we get old. This points out to some innate mechanisms we have. However, a child cannot learn language unless he is exposed to it. This on the other hand points out to an experiential learning. The debate about this matter still goes on. I think it is safe to say that both of them has an influence. As in language it is safe to say that some genius comes from genes and some from experience. Whichever may be true, it is proved that believing in the latest is more beneficial. Imagine a child who believes that genius comes from genes and he failed to get a good grade on his first exam of mathematics. The chances are he will lose confidence and he will see the way of getting a good grade is cheating. A child who believes in genius comes from experience on the other hand will try to study more when he fails in the first exam. The actual results of this experiment showed that there is a difference between the grades of second exams. The group that believed genius comes from experience scored higher. So whichever is true, it is wiser to think that we can get better with more hard work.