G. Stanley Hall

Granville Stanley Hall (1844-1924) was an American professor and psychologist who was the first president of the American Psychological Association. His research focused primarily on human childhood development.


Play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale it is the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth.

[Groos] well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely....

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