G. Stanley Hall
G. Stanley Hall
Granville Stanley Hallwas a pioneering American psychologist and educator. His interests focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory. Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association and the first president of Clark University. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Hall as the 72nd most cited psychologist of the 20th century, in a tie with Lewis Terman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth1 February 1844
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Being an only child is a disease in itself.
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.
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.
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.
Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.
.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
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.
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.