Lev S. Vygotsky

By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.

Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.

A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.

Through others we become ourselves.

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

... 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.