Stanley Hall
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...
children only-child disease
Being an only child is a disease in itself.
school development farms
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
men afternoon evening
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.
men habit stimulus
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
teacher children effort
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.
queens thinking mathematics
This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...
teacher children real
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.
children vigor movement
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
children lying passionate
Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.
birth born adolescence
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
truth real ideas
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.
well-known wells menstruation
Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.
book character men
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and machines in the world, written all the books, spoken all the words, and, in fact done everything that man has accomplished with matter. Character might be a sense defined as a plexus of motor habits.
selfish heart science
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.