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...
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.
teacher children oneness
Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.
emotional opposites psychics
The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.
children mind body
.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.
struggle soul impulse
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.
past men possible-and-impossible
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
past race savages
Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.
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.
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.
school development farms
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.