struggle-for-lifeurs

Updated: January 13, 2026

Instead of dropping out limp and disheartened, we should train "struggle-for-lifeurs," in Daudet's phrase, and that betimes, so that the young come back to it not too late for securing the best benefits, after having wasted the years best fitted for it in profitless studies or in the hard school of failure.

G. Stanley Hall - Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene