Ellen Key Quotes

• Cuando uno pinta un ideal, no necesita limitar su imaginación.

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  Creating, Imagination, Doe

  Ellen Key (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”

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• At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

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  Children, Real, Rose

  The Century of the Child Ch. 3

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• La educación puede darte una habilidad, pero una educación liberal puede darte dignidad.

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  Skills, Giving, Dignity

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• 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.

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  Baby, Children, Taken

  Ellen Key (2016). “The century of the child”, p.54, Ellen Key

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• La creencia de que algún día seremos capaces de evitar la guerra es para mí una creencia en la posibilidad de hacer a la humanidad realmente humana.

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  Paz, Guerra, Ubuntu

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• La madre es la posesión más preciada de la nación, tan preciada que la sociedad avanza en su más alto bienestar cuando protege las funciones de la madre.

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  Mother, Baby, Precious Possessions

  Ellen Key (2016). “The century of the child”, p.42, Ellen Key

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• The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

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  Education, Teaching, Light

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• The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.

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  Evil, Personality, Destruction

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• 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.

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  Pain, Punishment, Giving

  Ellen Key (1909). “The Century of the Child”

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• 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.

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  Happiness, Children, Mean

  Ellen Key, Mamah Bouton Borthwick (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”

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• Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

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  Love, Marriage, Moral

  Ellen Key (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”

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• Art, that great undogmatized church.

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  Art, Artist, Church

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• El amor ha estado en perpetua lucha con la monogamia.

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  Monogamy, Strife, Has Beens

  Ellen Key (1911). “Love and Marriage”

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• Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.

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  Dream, Personality, Remnants

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• Nada favorecería más eficazmente el desarrollo de la educación que el hecho de que todos los pedagogos de la flagelación aprendieran a educar con la cabeza en lugar de con la mano.

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  Education, Hands, Development

  Ellen Key (2016). “The education of the child”, p.20, Ellen Key

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• Todo, todo en la guerra es barbarie... Pero la peor barbarie de la guerra es que obliga a los hombres colectivamente a cometer actos contra los que individualmente se rebelarían con todo su ser.

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  Teamwork, Peace, Military

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• Cualquiera que intentara la tarea de talar un bosque virgen con una navaja sentiría probablemente la misma parálisis de desesperación que siente el reformador cuando se enfrenta a los sistemas escolares existentes.

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  Education, School, Despair

  Ellen Key (2016). “The century of the child”, p.99, Ellen Key

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• The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

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  Art, World, Abstract

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• 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.

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  Madre, Mujer, Hogar

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• Un gran poeta rara vez ha cantado a la felicidad legítimamente conyugal, sino al amor libre y secreto; y a este respecto, también se acerca el tiempo en que ya no habrá una norma de moralidad para la poesía y otra para la vida. Para cualquier persona tierna de conciencia, los lazos formados por una conexión libre son más fuertes que los legales.

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  Marriage, Ties, Secret Love

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• The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

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  Freedom, Liberty, Force

  Ellen Key (1911). “Love and Ethics”

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• 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.

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  Self, Movement, Affirmation

  Ellen Key (2016). “The century of the child”, p.32, Ellen Key

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• The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.

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  Women, Home, World

  Ellen Key (1914). “The Renaissance of Motherhood”

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• El convencionalismo es el acuerdo tácito de anteponer las apariencias a la realidad, la forma al contenido.

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  Reality, Agreement, Appearance

  Ellen Key (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”

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• All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

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  Burning, Charity, Mouths

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