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Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the creed of authority in every field; the solidarity of mankind and the cause of peace against the patriotism of militarism; social reform against the existing relations of society.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Against Authority Cause Creed Day Every Existing Feminism Field Free George Like Mankind Militarism Patriotism Peace Present Reform Relations Right Sand Social Society Solidarity Thought

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Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Adaptation Always Based Blotted Cannot Certainty Conditions Consequences Education Environment Evolution Faults May Must Other Out Progressive Same Same Time Slow Through Time Transformed

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For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!

~Ellen Key

Topics: Adds Anyone Been Great Immorality Life Love Mysterious Passions Plain Poetry Poor Power Prose Same Same Thing Says Then Thing Thousands Thousands Of Years Tragic Without Would Years

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What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?

~Ellen Key

Topics: Directions Educate Education Finally Following Great Happen Hidden Lies Maxim Nature Recognized Secret Succeeded Would

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The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion to duty, a sense of honour - habits that adults get out of with astonishing rapidity.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Adult Astonishing Child Degree Devotion Duty Educator Finished Forces Get Habits He Honour Once Out Perfect Sense Unnatural Wants

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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

Topics: Age Become Best Children Companion Constant Does Enough Good Growth Halfway Influence Keeping Oneself Only Own Process Things

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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

Topics: Actions Before Chief Child Constantly Contact Directing Discoveries Educator Entirely First He Him His Impress Last New Opinions Over Own Practice Present Principles Real Realised Really Right Self Soul Thing Things Think Which Whose

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The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Advise Anything Child Deviation Does Educator Everybody He Rather Rejoice Sees Should Tendencies

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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.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Absolute Alone Annoys Avoided Basis Cannot Child Crying Disagreeable Experience Explained Him Immediately Isolated Isolation Laid Makes Mind Must Oneself Others Result Same Same Time Them Time Unpleasant Whoever

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Every young person has to bear the burden - heavier in proportion as the individuality is richer - of accommodating himself to existence now that it is no longer seen with the eyes of a child, the eyes to which everything is as it should be.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Bear Burden Child Every Everything Existence Eyes Heavier Himself Individuality Longer Now Person Proportion Richer Seen Should Which Young Young Person

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Biography

Nationality: Swedish

Type: Writer

Born: December 11th, 1849

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