How can nature and nurture influence people?

The issue of nature versus nurture is one of the most
important and long-lasting debates in the social sciences.  This is true because there
seems to be so much evidence on each side of the issue.  Let us look at examples of how
each of these can influence a person.

For example, we know
that the children of well-educated people tend to do better in school.  This may well be
an example of the influence of nurture.  Educated people might speak more words and more
complex words and sentences to their children.  This might make their children more
ready to learn to read at an early age and to comprehend complex texts.  Thus, the way
the parents nurture their children impacts their performance in
school.

At the same time, however, children of the same
parents can have different results in school.  It may be the case that one child is
simply born with different talents (one brother might be good at social sciences while
another is interested in engineering, for example).  This is an example of innate
characteristics or "nature" influencing a person.