Lev S. Vygotsky

All Lev S. Vygotsky Quotes

• The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development. Advance
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow. Able
• The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech Begins
• Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them Children
• 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
• Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them Doe
• It is through others that we become ourselves. Funny
• 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
• A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action. Achievement
• 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
• The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual. Development
• Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them Existence
• 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
• Language is the tool of the tools Inspirational
• 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
• 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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