Remind yourself daily: While education is useful, it’s love that children and the world need. A deeply loved child with only some education will go much further than a well educated child lacking love.

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"While it is important to educate children, what is much more pressing is the need to love them. When education becomes more important than love, it is no longer education at all. For, tending to the delicate spirit of children is foundational if education is to fulfill its intended purpose of serving the greater whole."

- Vince Gowmon

Love

"Too much leading and we create anxiety for children. Too much following and the same is true. In wisdom we find balance between the two."

- Vince Gowmon

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"Don’t educate a child to become something or someone, educate to help them explore and celebrate who they already are."

- Vince Gowmon

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"Stop trying to turn children into someone they are not. Instead, let them unfold into who no human can imagine them to be."

- Vince Gowmon

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"Rushing children’s development is a formula for turning them into who they are not. Letting them play is a kind means of meeting them where they are and encouraging their authentic unfolding."

- Vince Gowmon

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"Love sees not with the eyes, but with the heart."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"The spell will be broken, the Beast will cease to exist, and I will become a prince once more, if she can learn to love and be loved in return."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"Love is not about finding someone perfect, but about accepting their imperfections."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"Love can break even the most powerful of curses."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"Love is not a choice, but a force that binds souls together."

- Beauty and the Beast

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