Ellen Key - The Century of the Child (1909)

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

Ellen Key

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself... to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

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

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

All philanthropy... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

Ellen Key

The mother is the precious possession of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well being when it protects the functions of the mother.

Ellen Key