Who claimed that Nature and Nurture work together in shaping a child’s development?

• A. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• B. Wolfgang Ratke
• C. Richard Mulcaster
• D. Disciplinism

Answer: (C)

Development is shaped by both what a child is born with and what they experience. Richard Mulcaster argued that education should fit a child’s natural tendencies and be strengthened through practice, language, and a supportive environment. This view sees innate capacities as the starting point that gets refined and expanded through nurture, showing how nature and nurture work together to shape growth. While Rousseau emphasized education in harmony with natural development, his focus was more on letting growth unfold rather than detailing an explicit collaboration between inborn traits and schooling; Ratke and disciplinism center on other educational concerns and don’t articulate this integrative stance as clearly.