Throughout his deliberation of cultural capital, Bourdieu prefers nurture rather than a nature argument. He declares that the capability and skill of an individual is fundamentally decided by the time and cultural capital funded in them by their parents. Similarly, Bourdieu argues that "the scholastic yield from educational action depends on the cultural capital previously invested by the family" and "the initial accumulation of cultural capital, the precondition for the fast, easy accumulation of every kind of useful cultural capital, starts at the outset, without delay, without wasted time, only for the offspring of families endowed with strong cultural capital." Based upon these claims, it emerges that cultural capital guides and reproduces
