1. Lev Vygotsky The only “good learning” is that which is in advance of development. ~ Lev Vygotsky, Mind in Society Quotes taken from Mind in Society

2. “Speech plays an essential role in the organization of higher psychological functions.”

3. “With the help of speech children, unlike apes, acquire the capacity to be both the subjects and objects of their own behavior.”

4. “Signs and words serve children first and foremost as a means of social contact with other people.”

5. “The child begins to perceive the world not only through his eyes but also through his speech.”

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

7. “The only "good learning" is that which is in advance of development.”

8. “What passes unnoticed by the child in real life becomes a rule of behavior in play.”

9. “Just as the imaginary situation has to contain rules of behavior, so every game with rules contains an imaginary situation.”

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

11. “Writing should be meaningful for children, that an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and that writing should be incorporated into a task that is necessary and relevant for life.”

12. “A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.” “A word is a microcosm of human consciousness.” “The child begins to perceive the world not only through its eyes but also through its speech. And later it is not just seeing but acting that becomes informed by words.”