What a child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow.Collection: Alone
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.Collection: Intelligence
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.Collection: Age
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.Collection: Society
A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.