G. Stanley Hall Quotes

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• 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.…
• All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses…
• This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...
• Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail…
• .. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.
• Being an only child is a disease in itself.
• 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…
• Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.
• 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…
• The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
• Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
• Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
• Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
• Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
• Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.
• Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
• Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the…
• Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.
• Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.
• Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater…

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