35 Quotes by G. Stanley Hall

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.

Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor developments.

Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely, for play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale it is the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth.

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession." ~ G. Stanley Hall

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born." ~

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

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.