The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.

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.

Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery" ~ Snarky comment of Clive from "The River Swimmer" (pg 47)

TO be practical not merely means to steal when everybody steals but to act with wits and wisdom...

I hit the ball early and move my wrist a lot, so I get bigger angles.

What are numbers? What is the nature of arithmetical truth?

What you wear doesn't really matter much. All that matters is where you're going what you're doing while you're wearing it.

No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.

You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.

Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.

Unlikely things to see in a Valentine's card - "I may be dyslexic but that doesn't mean I don't vole you."

I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please. That's how I know it doesn't exist.