A simple question we explored this week with our little explorers:

Is it better to be fast… or careful?

In our latest episode of Little Lantern Stories, we travel back to the Han Dynasty, into a classroom in Luoyang — where children learned that how you write… reflects how you think.

But this isn’t really a story about writing.

It’s about something most children quietly struggle with:Wanting to be quick… before they are ready.

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