In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional rel….

Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her..

Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both o….

In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or univer….

In today's world parents find themselves at the mercy of a society which imposes pressures and priorities that allow neither timenor place for meanin….

Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody ….

Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people... It is primarily through observing, playing, and workin….

One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world of work. Whereas in the past ….

Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performi….

If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the knowledge to underst….

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, the family….

If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed by the adult society, pe….

In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give explicit co….

Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action and turning the living into silent statues so long as ….

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 because others have raised us ….

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 par….

Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioural sequence, and we know he is physically capable of perform….

No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for oth….

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