Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them

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

The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.

Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them

... 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.

A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.

There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.