G. Stanley Hall

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

— G. Stanley Hall

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

— G. Stanley Hall

.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

— G. Stanley Hall

Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

— G. Stanley Hall

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

— G. Stanley Hall

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

— G. Stanley Hall

Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

— G. Stanley Hall

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...

— G. Stanley Hall

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an…

— G. Stanley Hall

Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

— G. Stanley Hall

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

— G. Stanley Hall

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given…

— G. Stanley Hall

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of…

— G. Stanley Hall

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

— G. Stanley Hall

There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden...…

— G. Stanley Hall

“Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old…

— G. Stanley Hall

Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the…

— G. Stanley Hall

The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is…

— G. Stanley Hall

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and…

— G. Stanley Hall

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive…

— G. Stanley Hall

Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and…

— G. Stanley Hall

All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart…

— G. Stanley Hall

Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage…

— G. Stanley Hall

Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

— G. Stanley Hall

“People don't quit playing because they grow old. They grow old because they quit playing.”

— G. Stanley Hall

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

— G. Stanley Hall

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

— G. Stanley Hall

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still…

— G. Stanley Hall