All Lev S. Vygotsky Quotes
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The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.
Advance
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Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature…
Activity
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Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another,…
Adaptive
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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…
Abilities
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Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that…
Aroused
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What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
Able
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The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech
Begins
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Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them
Children
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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…
Call
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Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them
Doe
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It is through others that we become ourselves.
Funny
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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) and…
Actual
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A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.
Achievement
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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…
Alone
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The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.
Development
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Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them
Existence
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It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through…
Basic
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Language is the tool of the tools
Inspirational
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The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan…
Action
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There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.
Activity
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