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...
best last matters
In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
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In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
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Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
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We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
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Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.
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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.
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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.
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Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
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This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
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When you are a kid, a wolf is an amazing sight, so sumptuous. I sort of knew these were splendid creatures, that I was not going to find them outside roaming around. It was like a dog, but not a dog. It was incredible, a god!
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For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.
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I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.