The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion to duty, a sense of honour - habits that adults get out of with astonishing rapidity. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
