It is the more necessary, Ellen Key remarks, for children to be introduced to great literature, since they often have little opportunity to occupy themselves with it in later life.

Many years earlier Ruskin, in _Sesame and Lilies_, had eloquently urged that even young girls should be allowed to range freely in libraries.
What has been said about literature applies equally to art.

Art, as well as literature, and in the same indirect way, can be made a valuable aid in the task of sexual enlightenment and sexual hygiene.

Modern art may, indeed, for the most part, be ignored from this point of view, but children cannot be too early familiarized with the representations of the nude in ancient sculpture and in the paintings of the old masters of the Italian school.

In this way they may be immunized, as Enderlin expresses it, against those representations of the nude which make an appeal to the baser instincts.