"Let our children be taught love love love"
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A short imperative becomes a philosophy of education. Let our children be taught love love love makes a claim about what schooling and upbringing are ultimately for: the formation of hearts, not just the filling of heads. The repetition works like a drumbeat or a prayer, stripping away qualifiers and programs to insist on one lesson as the foundation beneath all others. Learn to love and you will be able to learn everything else; neglect love and every other accomplishment risks being bent toward harm.
The phrasing our children widens responsibility beyond the private sphere. It is not your children or my children, but a collective future that depends on how the next generation is shaped. That communal voice implies policy and culture as much as personal mentorship. It suggests classrooms where empathy is modeled, neighborhoods where differences are met with curiosity, and public discourse that rewards care over contempt.
Love here is not mere sentimentality. It is a demanding practice: the disciplined attention to another’s dignity, the willingness to repair harm, the courage to see beyond tribe and stereotype. Taught means it does not reliably arise on its own; it must be named, rehearsed, and embodied by adults whom children watch more closely than they hear. That emphasis aligns with old traditions of moral education and with contemporary work in social-emotional learning, restorative justice, and anti-bullying efforts.
Read against eras of division, the line also functions as a counter-inheritance. If hatred and fear are taught, they can be untaught; if love is taught, it can become culture. There is a quiet audacity in the simplicity of the prescription. It does not deny the need for knowledge, skills, or critical thought. It argues that love is the medium in which those flourish without destroying what they touch, and that a society serious about its future will make that lesson the first and the last.
The phrasing our children widens responsibility beyond the private sphere. It is not your children or my children, but a collective future that depends on how the next generation is shaped. That communal voice implies policy and culture as much as personal mentorship. It suggests classrooms where empathy is modeled, neighborhoods where differences are met with curiosity, and public discourse that rewards care over contempt.
Love here is not mere sentimentality. It is a demanding practice: the disciplined attention to another’s dignity, the willingness to repair harm, the courage to see beyond tribe and stereotype. Taught means it does not reliably arise on its own; it must be named, rehearsed, and embodied by adults whom children watch more closely than they hear. That emphasis aligns with old traditions of moral education and with contemporary work in social-emotional learning, restorative justice, and anti-bullying efforts.
Read against eras of division, the line also functions as a counter-inheritance. If hatred and fear are taught, they can be untaught; if love is taught, it can become culture. There is a quiet audacity in the simplicity of the prescription. It does not deny the need for knowledge, skills, or critical thought. It argues that love is the medium in which those flourish without destroying what they touch, and that a society serious about its future will make that lesson the first and the last.
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