Ellen Key
Ellen Key
Ellen Karolina Sofia Keywas a Swedish difference feminist writer on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the Modern Breakthrough movement. She was an early advocate of a child-centered approach to education and parenting, and was also a suffragist...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 December 1849
CountrySweden
light waiting educator
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
art world abstract
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
evil personality destruction
The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.
monogamy strife has-beens
love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy ...
education school despair
Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems.
mother women home
The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only come to pass, either through the programme of institutional upbringing, or through the intimate renaissance of the home.
peace war humanity
The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.
freedom liberty force
The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.
pain punishment giving
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.
baby children taken
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.
love marriage moral
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
dream personality remnants
Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.
mother baby precious-possessions
The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.
children real rose
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.