Quotes from G. Stanley Hall

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

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

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

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

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.

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

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.

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

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

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

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.

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.