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

What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.

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

Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that is necessary and relevant.

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

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.

Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another, intertwining of external and internal factors, and adaptive processes which overcome impediments that the child encounters.