Acquire Quote by Urie Bronfenbrenner

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

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

There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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