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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Being an only child is a disease in itself.
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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.
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.