G. Stanley Hall Quotes
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“Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.”
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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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“Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.”
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“Being an only child is a disease in itself.”
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“Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.”
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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 years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.”
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“Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.”
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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.”