“Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.” ChildrenStillsScienceNaturalEffortEducationTeacherActivityConstantUselessImmense Author:G. Stanley Hall
“There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.” WantChildrenDoeAgeScienceLife IsGrowthEducationPeriodsGardenForestsDietsPotAppetiteSpontaneousVariationPupilsVigorousRococoWild Free Author:G. Stanley Hall