The specifically human ...

The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior.
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 Lev S. Vygotsky

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Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.
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 Lev S. Vygotsky
What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
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 Lev S. Vygotsky
... 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.
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 Lev S. Vygotsky
A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.
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 Lev S. Vygotsky