Will Hall
Will Hall
Will Hallis an American mental health advocate, counselor, writer, and teacher. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, he is a leader in the peer support movement and is an organizer within the psychiatric survivors movement. Hall advocates the recovery approach to mental illness and is recognized internationally as an innovator in the treatment and societal response to psychosis...
peculiar intimate muscles
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
children garden growth
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.
girl sea rivers
Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
sex plato individual
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
past race savages
Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.
giving dancing support
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
unique years eight
The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.
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.