The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless. — 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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