1. “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 may differ most profoundly.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
2. “The only ‘good’ learning is that which is in advance of development.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
3. “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
4. “A mind cannot be independent of culture.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
5. “Through others, we become ourselves.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
6. “Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
7. “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
8. “What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
9. “ Language is the tool of the tools” – Lev S. Vygotsky
10. “Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
11. “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
12. “The meaningful word is a microcosmos of human consciousness.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
13. “The individual becomes for himself what he is in himself through what he manifests for others.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
14. “A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
15. “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
16. “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
17. “The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
18. “Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
19. “It is through others that we become ourselves.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
20. “What a child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
21. “Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
22. “By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
23. “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
24. “… 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
25. “Language is the tool of the tools.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
26. “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 is necessary and relevant.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
27. “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, is important.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
28. “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 a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
29. “A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
30. “We are conscious of ourselves because we are conscious of others; and in an analogous manner, we are conscious of others because in our relationship to ourselves we are the same as others in their relationship to us. I am aware of myself only to the extent that I am as another for myself.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
31. “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
32. “The only ‘good’ learning is that which is in advance of development.” – Lev S. Vygotsky
33. “The meaningful word is a microcosmos of human consciousness.” – Lev S. Vygotsky