G. Stanley Hall Quotes
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Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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Being an only child is a disease in itself.
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Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
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Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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War has given applied psychology a tremendous impulse. This will, on the whole, do good, for psychology, which is the largest and last of the sciences, must not try to be too pure.
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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 average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
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The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
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Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
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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 to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.
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Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
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The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.
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Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.
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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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Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.
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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. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.
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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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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 intellect with the body that supports them
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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 in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.