Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Lev Vygotsky

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was a Soviet psychologist, known for his work on psychological development in children. He published on a diverse range of subjects, and from multiple views as his perspective changed over the years. Among his students was Alexander Luria and Kharkiv school of psychology.

Russian - Psychologist | November 17, 1896 - June 11, 1934

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Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

Lev Vygotsky

A mind cannot be independent of culture.

Lev Vygotsky

What a child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow.

Lev Vygotsky

In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.

Lev Vygotsky

Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.

Lev Vygotsky

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

Lev Vygotsky

The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.

Lev Vygotsky

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Lev Vygotsky

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