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1 " Through others we become ourselves. "
― Lev S. Vygotsky
2 " A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow. "
― Lev S. Vygotsky , Thought and Language
3 " 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. "
4 " By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own. "
― Lev S. Vygotsky , Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes
5 " ... 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. "
6 " The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider. "
7 " 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. "
8 " The individual becomes for himself what he is in himself through what he manifests for others. "
9 " Through others, we become ourselves. "
10 " Language is the tool of the tools "
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. "
12 " Internal and external action are inseparable: imagination, interpretation, and will are internal processes in external action. "
― Lev S. Vygotsky , Play And its Role in The Mental Development of The Child (Psychology Classics)
13 " Play continually creates demands on the child to act against immediate impulse, i.e., to act according to the line of greatest resistance. "
14 " The meaningful word is a microcosmos of human consciousness. "
15 " En ausencia de un sistema de signos lingüísticos u otros, sóloes posible el más primitivo y limitado' tipo de comunicación; ésta, que se manifiesta pormedio de movimientos expresivos, observados fundamentalmente entre los animales, noes tanto comunicación como expresión de afecto. "
16 " Art is the collectivisation of feeling. "
17 " En ausencia de un sistema de signos lingüísticos u otros, solo es posible el más primitivo y limitado tipo de comunicación"; ésta, que se manifiesta por medio de movimientos expresivos, observados fundamentalmente entre los animales, no es tanto comunicación como expresión de afectos. (pag. 12-cap. 1) "
18 " En ausencia de un sistema de signos lingüísticos u otros, solo es posible el más primitivo y limitado tipo de comunicación; ésta, que se manifiesta por medio de movimientos expresivos, observados fundamentalmente entre los animales, no es tanto comunicación como expresión de afectos. (pag. 12-cap. 1) "
19 " The internalization of socially rooted historically developed activities is the distinguishing feature of human psychology. "