G. Stanley Hall

G. Stanley Hall

Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1844 – April 24, 1924) was a pioneering American psychologist and educator.

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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