Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

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.

The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.

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

Through others we become ourselves.

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.

The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech

It is through others that we become ourselves.

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end.

The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with independent moral worth.

Adversity causes some men to break

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.