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 More Quotes by Lev S. Vygotsky More Quotes From Lev S. Vygotsky What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow. Lev S. Vygotsky able teaching children By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own. Lev S. Vygotsky practice talking thinking 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 individual development thinking A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action. Lev S. Vygotsky real play children The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider. Lev S. Vygotsky providers roles teacher In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above himself. Play contains in a concentrated form, as in the focus of a magnifying glass, all developmental tendencies; it is as if the child tries to jump above his usual level. Lev S. Vygotsky glasses play children 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 then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationships between individuals. Lev S. Vygotsky memories children people Through others we become ourselves. Lev S. Vygotsky imitation psychology identity 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 things. Lev S. Vygotsky education inspirational philosophy 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 do alone Lev S. Vygotsky development might 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 process of education those processes of development which now lie in the zone of proximal development Lev S. Vygotsky yesterday lying children The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech Lev S. Vygotsky eye children world ... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls. Lev S. Vygotsky passion girl strong The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers Lev S. Vygotsky distance independent adults 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 intellectual social children It is through others that we become ourselves. Lev S. Vygotsky Language is the tool of the tools Lev S. Vygotsky language tools Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them Lev S. Vygotsky existence Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them Lev S. Vygotsky teach realizing doe 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 that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control. Lev S. Vygotsky environment influence may
