Teaching and learning Quotes by Lev S. Vygotsky

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

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

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

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

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

— Lev S. Vygotsky

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

The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech

— Lev S. Vygotsky

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

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

Language is the tool of the tools

— Lev S. Vygotsky

The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.

— Lev S. Vygotsky

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