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

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

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

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

Through others we become ourselves.

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.

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