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

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

It is through others that we become ourselves.

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

... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.

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.

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.