"The Ideal School as Based on Child Study"

Journal article

By: G. Stanley Hall

Date: 1901

Source: Hall, G. Stanley. "The Ideal School as Based on Child Study." National Education Association Journal of Proceedings and Addresses, 1901, 474–483. Reprinted in Calhoun, Daniel, ed. The Educating of Americans. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969, 374–378.

About the Author: Granville Stanley Hall (1844–1924) graduated from Williams College and earned the first Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard in 1878. He taught at Johns Hopkins University and then became the president of Clark University in 1889. Under Hall's leadership, Clark became a center of research in child development and child study. Hall founded the Child Study Association of America in 1888 and became the first president of the American Psychological Association in 1889.

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