“People don't quit playing because they grow old. They grow old because they quit playing.” — 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
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share
.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share
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
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share
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
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
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
Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share
This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking... — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share
Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share
The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share
Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share
Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share
