The strength of speaking gently

After five years of public school teaching, I’m learning to appreciate these words from a hymn:

Speak gently, it is better far 
To rule by love than fear; 
Speak gently, let no harsh words mar 
The good we may do here. 
(David Bates, Christian Science Hymnal, No. 315).

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