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Quote by Jean Piaget

“Play is the work of childhood.”

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Swiss psychologist and the founder of the theory of cognitive development. Piaget's research has had a profound impact on fields such as educational psychology and child psychology. more

“Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationships between individuals.”

People Firsts Children Individual Social Memories Levels Attention Development Higher Concepts Function Logical Formation

Author:Lev S. Vygotsky

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

Children Real Play Action Levels Tomorrow Achievement Greatest Achievement

Author:Lev S. Vygotsky

“What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone”

Children Might Can Do Development Assistance

Author:Lev S. Vygotsky

“The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.”

Thinking Individual Social Development

Author:Lev S. Vygotsky

“Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them”

Existence

Author:Lev S. Vygotsky

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