Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Lev Vygotsky

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Lev Vygotsky

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.

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.
A mind cannot be independent of culture.
What a child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow. — © Lev Vygotsky
What a child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow.
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.
Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.
A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.
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.
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