G. Stanley Hall
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Biography
Granville Stanley Hall was an American psychologist and educator who earned the first doctorate in psychology awarded in the United States of America at Harvard University in the nineteenth century. His interests focused on human life span development and evolutionary theory.
"Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself."
"War has given applied psychology a tremendous impulse. This will, on the whole, do good, for psychology, which is the largest and last of the sciences, must not try to be too pure."
"Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born."
"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."
"The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity."
"Every theory of love from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself."