“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
Famous Ellen Key Quotes
- “Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.”
2. “Why is the heart that is broken considered so much more valuable than the one or the two who must cause the pain lest they themselves perish?”
3. “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.”
4. “The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.”
5. “Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.”
6. “The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.”
7. “All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.”
8. “The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world’s evolution.”
9. “Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.”
10. “The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.”
11. “Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.” – Ellen Key
12. “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.”
13. “Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.”
14. “When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one’s imagination.”
15. “The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.”
16. “Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.”
17. “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.”
18. “When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one’s imagination.”
Ellen Key (11 December 1849 – 25 April 1926) was 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.
She is best known for her book on education Barnets århundrade (1900), which was translated into English in 1909 as The Century of the Child.