American Decades
"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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1900's Education Primary Sources
- "The Forgotten Man"
- "The Little Schoolboy"
- "The Ideal School as Based on Child Study"
- "The Child and the Curriculum"
- The Elective System in Higher Education
- "Industrial Education for the Negro"
- "The True Character of the New York Public Schools"
- Charter and By-Laws
- "The Talented Tenth"
- Farmington
- Letter of Gift to the Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- "The Certification of Teachers"
- "The Public School and the Immigrant Child"
- Stubborn Fool: A Narrative
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
