Language Quote by Lev S. Vygotsky Download Open image “Language is the tool of the tools” — Lev S. Vygotsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Tools
Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life. — Joy Kogawa Copy Share Image
Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it. — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others). — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Language is the principal tool with which we communicate; but when words are used carelessly or mistakenly, what was intended to advance mutual understanding… — Irving Copi Copy Share Image
Language is just a communication tool; it is the content that decides the fate of a film. — Ram Gopal Varma Copy Share Image
Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. — Laura Schlessinger 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development. — Lev S. Vygotsky 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 form into… — Lev S. Vygotsky 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 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 individual. — Lev S. Vygotsky 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 what they… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider. — Lev S. Vygotsky 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 action, to… — Lev S. Vygotsky 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 a task… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image