In today's world parents find themselves at the mercy of a society which imposes pressures and priorities that allow neither timenor place for meaningful activities and relations between children and adults, which downgrade the role of parents and the functions… — 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… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
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
Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action and turning the living into silent statues so… — 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
No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
