...annihilation of once existed matter. The desire for knowledge, the capacity for acting for one's self, the gift of observation, all qualities children bring...transformed into actual knowledge or interests. This is a result of children spending almost the whole of their life from the sixth to the eighteenth year...

...to be stimulated. The child must be forced as little as possible. Key in The Centurv of the Child: "The desire for knowledge, the capacity for acting...been transformed into actual knowledge or interests." She talked, therefore, about 'soul murder in the schools'.33 The 'new belief she pleaded for in 1900...

...Ellen Key, from the education chapter of her 1909 international bestseller The Century of the Child: The modern school has succeeded in doing something...from the sixth to the eighteenth year at the school desk, hour by hour, month by month, term by term; taking doses of knowledge, first in teaspoonfuls,...