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
Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.
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.
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.
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
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.
This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...
Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.
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.