35 Quotes by 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.

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

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

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.

Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them

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.

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.

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...