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G. Stanley Hall
(1 Feb 1844 - 24 Apr 1924)
American psychologist
who distinguished experimental psychology in the U.S. from the
philosophical psychology that dominated in America at the time. He
developed child psychology and educational psychology.
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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.”
— G. Stanley Hall
“Every theory of love, from Plato down,
teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in
himself.”
— G. Stanley Hall
“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.”
— G. Stanley Hall
“Being an only child is a disease in itself.”
— G. Stanley Hall
“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.”
— G. Stanley Hall
“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.”
— G. Stanley Hall
Youth, Its Education,
Regimen and Hygiene (1921)
“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.”
— G. Stanley Hall
Adolescence (1904)
“... every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.”
— G. Stanley Hall
Adolescence (1904)
“Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.”
— G. Stanley Hall
Adolescence (1904)
“Mathematics... the ideal and norm of all careful thinking”
— G. Stanley Hall
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 