Character Quotes by 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 of male…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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 his environment.

— 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

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