Through others we become ourselves.

By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.

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.

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

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

The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.

Through others we become ourselves.