G. Stanley Hall Quotes

‘Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.’ – G. Stanley Hall

‘Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.’ – G. Stanley Hall

‘Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.’ – G. Stanley Hall

‘Being an only child is a disease in itself.’ – G. Stanley Hall

‘Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.’ – 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

‘Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.’ – G. Stanley Hall

‘The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.’ – G. Stanley Hall

‘Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.’ – G. Stanley Hall

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