G. Stanley Hall Quotes

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

Early youth is a baffling time.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

I think you're a good person or a todd by the age of eight.

Watching kids go from the age of 9 and 10 to 13 is a big, huge jump. The way they speak, their looks, their attitudes, everything changes as you go from being a little kid to a teenager.

I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.

When what we introduce into the children's world of ideas and feelings is in line with the direction of the developmental forces of a given stage of life, we strengthen the entire developing person in a way that remains a source of strength throughout that person's life.

We've got to understand that the ages of zero to three are the most formative years of a person's life, the time they learn the concept of reward and punishment and develop a conscience, and that 50 percent of all learned human response is learned in the first year of life.

Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.

I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have really wanted to rebel. Up until that point, though, it didn't feel like doctrine, and it gave me a great moral structure.

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced.

We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

Give me a child for the first 7 years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

The first 3 years of a person’s life determines the next 80 years.

During and shortly after puberty human beings have an indubitable tendency to loosen their allegiance to all traditional rites and social norms of their culture

The conscious imprinting that happens between, say, 10 and 16 is huge. I think it's so important for me as a writer to stay open to the memories of that period because they were so formative.