Ellen Key Writer
- Gender: Female
- Citizenship: Sweden
- Born: Dec 11, 1849
- Died: Apr 25, 1926
Ellen Karolina Sofia Key was a Swedish difference feminist writer on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the Modern Breakthrough movement. She was an early advocate of a child-centered approach to education and parenting, and was also a suffragist.
She is best known for her book on education, Barnets århundrade, which was translated in English in 1909 as The Century of the Child.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
experience
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
art
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
imagination
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
legal, love & marriage