In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody's got to be crazy about that kid. That's number one. First, last… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioural sequence, and we know he is physically capable… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents-the talks, the games,… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth. — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces, although there is danger there, as in the behavior it prevents: the talks, the games, the… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share
We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share
Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody who’s crazy about… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Children need people in order to become human… It is primarily through observing, playing, and working with others older and younger than himself that… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give explicit consideration… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
