Pedagogy must be oriented not to the yesterday, but to the tomorrow of the child's development. Only then can it call to life in the process of education those processes of development which now lie in the zone of proximal… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share
There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them. — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share
The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share
Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological)… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share
Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share
The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share
The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual. — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share
What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share
The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share
Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share
Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share
In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share
