G. Stanley Hall

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G. Stanley Hall

Born: February 1, 1844

Died: April 24, 1924

Nationality: American

Occupation: Psychologist

Biography: Granville Stanley Hall was a pioneering American psychologist and educator. His interests focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory. Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association and the first president of Clark University.

G. Stanley Hall

“Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.”

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“Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.”

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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.”

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“Being an only child is a disease in itself.”

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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.”

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

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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.”

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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.”

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