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

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.

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.

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

The process of life, towards the whole truth can only be covered, by absolutely dropping yourself. You can only merge into the whole, if you prepare to lose yourself.

I won't say I'm out of condition now - but I even puff going downstairs.

We dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness.

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.

I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.

It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation to profoundest purpose - contained in the psyche.

We see through others only when we see through ourselves.

From the very beginning Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.

One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.

I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.