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In many ways Vygotsky’s theorizing about the process of learning and concept development is an individually scaled-down version of Lenin’s social/macro analysis of class development. This individualization of social relations is illustrated through __one of Vygotsky’s most fundamental and groundbreaking claims: that the structure of social relations external to the individual person becomes internalized and effectively structures what he calls the “higher mental functions” of the individual.__
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
A great hammer doesn’t make a great carpenter; but a great carpenter will always want to have a great hammer.
Getting Things Done
David Allen
Bengalis were also introduced to radical thought by Henry Vivian Derozio (1809-31), a Eurasian teacher at Calcutta's Hindu College who had an 'academic association' (on the line of Plato's Academy) where continuous discussion among Bengali students took place. Derozio popularized the work of Bacon, Locke, Hume, Paine and the French 18th-century thinkers, and encouraged his students to doubt and question everything and accept no authority but reason.
Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World
Kumari Jayawardena
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