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
creating imagination needs
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
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.
dream personality remnants
Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.
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.
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.
monogamy strife has-beens
love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy ...
evil personality destruction
The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.
children patriotic loss
the higher the development of women, the more they suffer from the 'patriotic' mandate to bear many children to replace the nation's losses. For they know that, from the point of view of their personal development as well as that of the race, fewer but better children are to be preferred.
teamwork peace military
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
mouths incense burning
All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.
offering air burning
All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.
self movement affirmation
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
freedom liberty force
The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.
education hands development
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.