All G. Stanley Hall Quotes
- 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.… Characteristic
- 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… Active
- This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking... All
- 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… Cause
- .. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals. Body
- Being an only child is a disease in itself. Child
- 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… Activity
- Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery. Children
- 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… Age
- The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity. Acquire
- Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself. Down
- Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children. Abundance
- Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. Adolescence
- Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment. Activities
- Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past. Adolescence
- Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development. All
- 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… Body
- Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher. Childhood
- Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession. Adolescence
- 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… Age
- The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life. Constitute
- Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known. Inspirational
- Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea. Broadening
- Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. Intimate