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 More Quotes by Ellen Key More Quotes From Ellen Key When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. Ellen Key creating imagination doe At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. Ellen Key real rose children 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. Ellen Key precious-possessions mother baby 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. Ellen Key taken baby children Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity. Ellen Key dignity skills giving 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. Ellen Key ubuntu war peace 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. Ellen Key punishment pain giving Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy. Ellen Key strife monogamy has-beens Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. Ellen Key moral marriage love The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present. Ellen Key light teaching education The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. Ellen Key abstract world art 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. Ellen Key military teamwork peace 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. Ellen Key women mother home 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. Ellen Key despair education school The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution. Ellen Key women home world Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content. Ellen Key appearance agreement reality 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 development education hands Art, that great undogmatized church. Ellen Key church artist art 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. Ellen Key affirmation movement self The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child. Ellen Key happiness mean children
