Phil Gramm
American economist and politician
G. Stanley Hall
American psychologist and educator (1846-1924)
Granville Stanley Hallwas an American psychologist and educator who earned the first doctorate in psychology awarded in the United States of America at Harvard College in the nineteenth century. His interests focused on human life span development and evolutionary theory.
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About the G. Stanley Hall
Granville Stanley Hallwas an American psychologist and educator who earned the first doctorate in psychology awarded in the United States of America at Harvard College in the nineteenth century. His interests focused on human life span development and evolutionary theory. Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association and the first president of Clark University. A 2002 survey by Review of General Psychology ranked Hall as the 72nd most cited psychologist of the 20th century, in a tie with Lewis Terman.
10 Quotes by G. Stanley Hall
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
G. Stanley HallAmerican psychologist and educator (1846-1924)
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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 HallAmerican psychologist and educator (1846-1924)
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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 HallAmerican psychologist and educator (1846-1924)
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Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
G. Stanley HallAmerican psychologist and educator (1846-1924)
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Being an only child is a disease in itself.
G. Stanley HallAmerican psychologist and educator (1846-1924)
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Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
G. Stanley HallAmerican psychologist and educator (1846-1924)
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
G. Stanley HallAmerican psychologist and educator (1846-1924)
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The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.
G. Stanley HallAmerican psychologist and educator (1846-1924)
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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 HallAmerican psychologist and educator (1846-1924)
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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 HallAmerican psychologist and educator (1846-1924)