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

- Urie Bronfenbrenner

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

- 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 because others have raised us …

- Urie Bronfenbrenner

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…

- Urie Bronfenbrenner

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

- Urie Bronfenbrenner

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

- Urie Bronfenbrenner

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

- 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

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…

- Urie Bronfenbrenner