G. Stanley Hall Quotes

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Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

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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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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

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Every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

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Every great expert should feel it his duty to put the best that is in him in a form most interesting and profitable to a cultured lay audience.

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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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Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

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The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

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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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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.

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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 over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.

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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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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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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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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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The nature of youth demand that science should be taught at first in a large, all-comprehensive way, not without a distinctly religious spirit, reopening the half-obscured but broad road by which man passes from nature to nature's God.

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Mathematics... the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.

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