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.

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.

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.

Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them

Still, the painful death of that unicorn had been satisfying to watch

If the ties that bind ever do come looseIf forever ever ends for youIf that ring gets a little too tightYou might as well read me my last rights.

Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded to see a copy of his birth certificate.

This is just one little part of who I am, and I'm not gonna let my sexuality define or confine me. It's part of me, it's not all of me.

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.

Everybody handles things differently.

Leggings are everywhere, indeed. Personally, I'm not crazy about them, but they can look great with the right look, a tunic, for instance, or a long cardigan. Just don't try to dress them up!

How can love let it go when it has no place to go? And I can't go along pretending that love isn't here to stay... Catch me I'm falling for you.

A secret is powerful when it is empty.