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.

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.

When love is your power and imagination is your guide, nothing is impossible.

If you don't know exactly what you want, that is exactly what you will get.

I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.

The media are very smart, they're very cunning, and they're very dishonest.

Hope is the letter that never arrives delivered by the postman of my fear.

The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.

The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.

There may be a jump on electronic LSD with virtual reality, and the problem just with saying LSD, enough time has gone by that there is no distinction between psychedelics and other drugs.

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.