"In order to develop normally, a child requires……" — Urie Bronfenbrenner
"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 and always."
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Urie Bronfenbrenner
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14 Quotes by Urie Bronfenbrenner
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Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know…
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The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it…
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In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male,…
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One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world…
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Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons…
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There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.
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Children need people in order to become human.... It is primarily through observing, playing, and working with others older and…
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In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need…
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Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.
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Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into…
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No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and…
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Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially…
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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