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G. Stanley Hall
American
Psychologist
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Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
G. Stanley Hall,
American
Psychologist
#Children
#Abundance
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
G. Stanley Hall,
American
Psychologist
#Now
#Adolescence
Being an only child is a disease in itself.
G. Stanley Hall,
American
Psychologist
#Being
#Disease
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
G. Stanley Hall,
American
Psychologist
#Work
#Development
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
G. Stanley Hall,
American
Psychologist
#Will
#Sense
The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.
G. Stanley Hall,
American
Psychologist
#Life
#Years
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,
American
Psychologist
#Man
#Habit
#Environment
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.
G. Stanley Hall,
American
Psychologist
#Civilization
#Age
#Disease
#Body
#Protection
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,
American
Psychologist
#Past
#May
#Man
#Future
#Heredity
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
G. Stanley Hall,
American
Psychologist
#Love
#Theory
#Sex