This article is a response to Stephen Rowland's article, "Kindness," which appeared in "London Review of Education," November 2009. Much to my amazement, Stephen Rowland's article was the only one I found when I did a global database search on "kindness in education". I had thought that I would find reams of information in the databases on the topic that I had wanted to write about. So I am grateful for the depth of information provided in "Kindness;" it led the way for this, my own article on "kindness in education".