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Letter "E" » Ellen Key Quotes
«Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity»
«The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present»
«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.»
Author: Ellen Key
(Writer)
| About:
Punishment
| Keywords:
corporal, corporal punishment, hardening, humiliate, humiliated, humiliating, ineffective, Physical pain, receives
«At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses»
«The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.»
«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.»
Author: Ellen Key
(Writer)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
barbaric, barbarity, collectively, individually, revolt
«Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love»
«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.»
Author: Ellen Key
(Writer)
| Keywords:
abhors, absorbed, assumed, baby talk, childishness, condescend, condescended, condescending, In Training, taken up
«When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.»
«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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