A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

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

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.

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

Language is the tool of the tools

A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above himself. Play contains in a concentrated form, as in the focus of a magnifying glass, all developmental tendencies; it is as if the child tries to jump above his usual level.