When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit ones imagination. – 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. – Ellen Key

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit ones imagination. – 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. – Ellen Key
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
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
A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom. – Jonathan Kozol