Quotes by Key, Ellen

All philanthropy... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth o >>

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effe >>

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a >>

Quotations about Children

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them aft >>

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. >>

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true lov >>

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.

Key, Ellen