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

 

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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This quote is just one of 9 total Ellen Key quotes in our collection. Ellen Key is known for saying 'At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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
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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.

Ellen Key
53
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. -Ellen Key
53

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Ellen Key
53

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

Ellen Key
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