G. Stanley Hall famous quotes

03-24-2025

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Past #Men #Variation
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Peculiar #Intimate #Muscles
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Men #Habit #Reflexes
Adolescence as the time when an individual â€˜recapitulatesâ€™ the savage stage of the raceâ€™s past.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Past #Race #Savages
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#School #Development #Motor
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
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Giving #Dancing #Support
Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Teacher #Children #Oneness
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Struggle #Soul #Impulse
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.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Art #Average #Civilization
The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Unique #Years #Eight
Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Well Known #Wells #Menstruation
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Birth #Born #Adolescence
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Children #Degrees #Vigor
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Sex #Plato #Individual
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.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Emotional #Opposites #Psychics
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 to which they may be put, is as utterly meaningless and vain as to inquire whether a musical tone is red or yellow. No other conceivable relation than this between ideas and things can exist. The unknowable is what I cannot react upon. The active part of our nature is not only an essential part of cognition itself, but it always has a voice in determining what shall be believed and what rejected.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Truth #Real #Ideas
This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Queens #Thinking #Mathematics
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.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Selfish #Heart #Science
.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Children #Mind #Body
Being an only child is a disease in itself.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Children #Only Child #Disease
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.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Teacher #Children #Effort
Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Children #Lying #Passionate
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.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Children #Garden #Growth
Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Girl #Sea #Rivers

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