G. Stanley Hall Quotes

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

Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

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

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

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

Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

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

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.

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

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

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

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

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.

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

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.