Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created… — Lev S. Vygotsky Constructs Copy Share Image
There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to… — Lev S. Vygotsky Activity Copy Share Image
The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through… — Lev S. Vygotsky Adults Copy Share Image
Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between… — Lev S. Vygotsky Attention Copy Share Image
The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development. — Lev S. Vygotsky Development Copy Share Image
Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one… — Lev S. Vygotsky Adaptive Copy Share Image
The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech — Lev S. Vygotsky Children Copy Share Image
The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the… — Lev S. Vygotsky Development Copy Share Image
What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than… — Lev S. Vygotsky Assistance Copy Share Image
The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider. — Lev S. Vygotsky Happiness Copy Share Image
The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive… — Lev S. Vygotsky Action Copy Share Image
Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into… — Lev S. Vygotsky Children Copy Share Image
Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them — Lev S. Vygotsky Doe Copy Share Image
In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were,… — Lev S. Vygotsky Age Copy Share Image
A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow. — Lev S. Vygotsky Life Copy Share Image
It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the… — Lev S. Vygotsky Behavior Copy Share Image
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about… — Lev S. Vygotsky Ability Copy Share Image
Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them — Lev S. Vygotsky Existence Copy Share Image
By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own. — Lev S. Vygotsky Giving Copy Share Image
Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or… — Lev S. Vygotsky Activity Copy Share Image
Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them — Lev S. Vygotsky Children Copy Share Image
Pedagogy must be oriented not to the yesterday, but to the tomorrow of the child's development. Only then can it call to… — Lev S. Vygotsky Children Copy Share Image
