Originally Posted by Kriston
What does this

Originally Posted by annoying letter writer
Research in Europe has shown that the genetic equality to learn can spread over 15 to 25 years.

even mean?

Lysenkoism - the idea that acquired traits can become genetically encoded. Its still prevalent in some Leninist-Marxist writings, which the author seems to have read uncritically.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

"It is often suggested that Lysenko's success came solely from the desire in the USSR to assert that heredity had only a limited role in human development; that future generations, living under socialism, would be purged of their 'bourgeois' or 'fascist' instincts."

I am not trying to get political here, but want to try to shed some light on the author's thought processes. It seems the author wants to deny human nature.