Lev S. Vygotsky Quotes
What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.
The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.
A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.
What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.
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The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech
Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them
Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them
A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.
Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that is necessary and relevant.
There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.
Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.