There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great.… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
“Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely, for play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking... — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
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