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
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Is human love the growth of the human will ?
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Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
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The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.
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Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.
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The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.
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Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch.
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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.
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The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
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To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.
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War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.
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When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must not be with them, if this isolation is the absolute result and cannot be avoided, in the child's mind a basis is laid for the experience that one must be alone when one makes oneself unpleasant or disagreeable.
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A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the laws of life - to which belongs the law that suffering follows the misuse of freedom - will finally be able to bring everything within its right limits.
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All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.
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Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions.