An appropriate quote

I want to continue a discussion of the issues I brought up in the previous post. In line with that, here is a quote by Marx (which was used by L. S. Vygotsky) which connects to many of the issues that I brought up and suggests a direction that I want to proceed in in future posts.

"The spider carries out operations reminiscent of a weaver, and the boxes which bees build in the sky could disgrace the work of many architects. But even the worst architect differs from the most able bee from the very outset in that before he builds a box out of boards, he has already constructed it in his head. At the end of the work process he obtains a result which already existed in his mind before he began to build. The architect not only changes the form given to him by nature, within the constraints imposed by nature, but he also carries out a purpose of his own which defines the means and the character of the activity to which he must subordinate his will. (Capital, Pt. 3, ch. 7, sec. I)"