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. Ellen Key More Quotes by Ellen Key More Quotes From Ellen Key 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. Ellen Key patriotic loss children Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality. Ellen Key remnants personality dream The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time. Ellen Key destruction personality evil Is human love the growth of the human will ? Ellen Key human-love growth humans All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. Ellen Key burning charity mouths Formerly, a nation that broke the peace, did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely from higher motives. ... Now war has a bad conscience. Now every nation assures us that it is bleeding for a human cause, the fate of which hangs in the balance of its victory ... No nation dares to admit the guilt of blood before the world. Ellen Key fate war blood A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones. Ellen Key secret-love marriage ties Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity. Ellen Key fidelity duty liberty 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. Ellen Key offering air doe On the whole, the experience that the activity of the soul obeys the law of least resistance has been verified even in regard to women's social morals. As a rule, these have been focused on the family and on charity - among other reasons, because woman's sense of duty seldom finds means of expression in other directions. Ellen Key women experience family soul When psychical phenomena have been as much investigated as physical, love will also receive its cumatology - that is, its science of waves. We shall follow the curves of the emotions through the ages, their movement of rise and fall, the oppositions and side-influences by which they have been determined. Ellen Key waves love science fall Only by keeping oneself in constant process of growth, under the constant influence of the best things in one's own age, does one become a companion halfway good enough for one's children. Ellen Key best good age children Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such. Ellen Key patriotism strength power country Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong. Ellen Key help-others fight power children The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly those in which thus far they have most distinguished themselves. This contains a warning against too precipitate conclusions about the intellectual life of woman. Ellen Key woman women mathematics life When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace. Ellen Key own solidarity drawing peace Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect. Ellen Key great genius love life 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 be realised by the educator is that he really has before him an entirely new soul, a real self whose first and chief right is to think over the things with which he comes in contact. Ellen Key child soul practice self Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to fear that social interests may encroach upon individual development, that a knowledge of all the ills affecting the community may act as too powerful a damper on the joys of youth. Ellen Key community age fear knowledge The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism - in the same degree as the latter is permeated by evolutionism - towards the perfecting of earthly life. Ellen Key bliss socialism emotion life
