Lev Vygotsky
Lev Vygotsky
Lev Semyonovich Vygotskywas a Soviet psychologist, the founder of a theory of human cultural and bio-social development commonly referred to as cultural-historical psychology, and leader of the Vygotsky Circle...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth17 November 1896
CountryRussian Federation
applied feelings formed human possible reason society somehow talented understood view
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.
basic level possible
A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.
alone child cooperation
What a child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow.
abstract course forms gives human lines occurs practical purely
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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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.
discovery level love reach
Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.