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

A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.

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

Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

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

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

Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them