. >> steven pinker. you take out by saying this -- >> what are you getting at? >> i wanted to make the point, and i should say, i generally have a lot of respect for stephen pinker. i thought "the language instinct" was a classic. but this comes from a specific scientific and ideological perspective. we're somewhere along the continuum, how much of the nature or nurture guy are you? he is over here -- he thinks that iq means a great deal. and i'm talking about the power of culture and environment. when he criticizes me, he is doing so not because i am violating the rules of scientific understanding, but just because we are at different points on the continuum. and it's not right or wrong or legitimate or illegitimate. it's just a different perspective. >> he is a harvard professor. and you write -- >> explain that. >> one of the things that he had to quibble with in his review is an essay i wrote about quarterbacks and teachers. he made this point, i was talking about, teachers are the most important variable in an education. teacher quality explains more than a