At 01:58 PM 4/8/02 -0500, Lisa Hager wrote:
>The exact quote is "Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my 
>own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one 
>at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--a 
>doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and yes, even into beggarman and 
>thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, 
>vocations and race of his ancestors."


Lisa found the quote just ahead of me...... but I just had to add the 
following:

Watson is criticized (validly) for many things.  Whenever I read this 
quote, though, I am incredibly impressed with just how progressive a 
statement it is for 1926.

-- Jim
  


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