Nature, nurture, and intelligence If Einstein had gone to the school on the right, would he have turned out to be Einstein? Though all children deserve to attend a good school, they don’t all have that opportunity. Some benefit from computers and other technologies that boost learning, whereas others—like the children on the right, who live in a poor neighborhood in Haiti—may attend schools that lack electricity. As the chapter explains, the relative influence of nature and nurture on intelligence depends on which type of environment children grow up in.