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'.