"Constant muscular activity was natural for the child,……" — G. Stanley Hall
"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."
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G. Stanley Hall
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24 Quotes by G. Stanley Hall
G. Stanley Hall has 24 quotes on this site.
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The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and…
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All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or…
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This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...
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Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will…
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.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.
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Being an only child is a disease in itself.
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Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.
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There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a…
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The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations…
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Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in…
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Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in…
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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