"There is reason to believe that voluntary activity,……" — 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."
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26 Quotes by Lev S. Vygotsky
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The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.
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Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in…
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Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation…
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Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for…
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Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be…
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What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
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The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her]…
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Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those…
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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…
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Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them
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It is through others that we become ourselves.
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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;…
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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