The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery,… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Every young person has to bear the burden - heavier in proportion as the individuality is richer - of accommodating himself to… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
In order to overcome the spirit that creates war, mothers must begin in the tender years of childhood to teach children that… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
the higher the development of women, the more they suffer from the 'patriotic' mandate to bear many children to replace the nation's… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child break forth again when the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually… — Ellen Key Copy Share
The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last thing to… — Ellen Key Copy Share
All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to… — Ellen Key Copy Share
Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect. — Ellen Key Copy Share
War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause. — Ellen Key Copy Share
When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined… — Ellen Key Copy Share
The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion… — Ellen Key Copy Share
Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch. — Ellen Key Copy Share
Formerly, a nation that broke the peace, did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely from higher… — Ellen Key Copy Share
When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and… — Ellen Key Copy Share
One day we were brought into the world, knowing love only as being what we had for our toys, family, and friends. Then, you… — Ellen Key Copy Share
The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat… — Ellen Key Copy Share
The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution. — Ellen Key Copy Share
Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power… — Ellen Key Copy Share
Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism. — Ellen Key Copy Share
