Environment, sometimes referred to as “nature” is the descriptive term applied to the factors, surrounding condition, influences, and forces, which modify and exert an influence on growth and development from the instant conception. It refers to the sum total of external conditions and potentially capable of influencing an organism. These external conditions and factors which may modify and influence and  development includes the physical, mental, and moral agencies, which surround the indicial; the domestic, educational, and social influences with which he comes into the contact Environment is the field in which the individual’s hereditary traits and capacities are developed. Heredity supplies the raw materials upon which environment acts.

Heredity accounts for the general native equipment of the individual, while environment, while environment provides the experiences or opportunities for growth and development of these heredity traits and capacities. The individual possesses numerous potentials, which may or may not be manifest them and become actualities depending upon the environment surrounding the growing individual. It inherited trails and tendencies, both physical and mental, may be accentuated, altered, controlled, and perhaps even definitely eliminated by the environment.