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. VygotskyHuman learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them
Lev S. Vygotsky... 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. VygotskyA word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.
Lev S. Vygotsky