The primary task of this paper is the critique of the concept of educational love, which will be based on the philosophical and pedagogical work of Pavao Vuk-Pavlović. Even today, the relationship between those who educate and those who are educated is considered one of the most important factors that influence upbringing, therefore the works of Pavao Vuk-Pavlović are of great importance in researching the essential aspect of such a relationship, which is love. For Pavao Vuk-Pavlović, educational love is a general educational principle and a necessary condition for educational activity, therefore it will be analyzed in detail in this paper. According to him, love is the driving force of every relationship, and at the same time the essence and condition of any educational activity. Through a philosophical-theoretical insight into the most important works of the philosophy of education of this author, I will provide a conceptual analysis of educational love and place it in the context of Vuk-Pavlović's philosophy of upbringing. In researching the concept of educational love, I will also use the terms of pedagogical eros and pedagogical tact. A critical review of the possibility of implementing Vuk-Pavlović's theory of education, as well as educational love in practice, will also be one of the aspects of this work. Following the foundations of further research into the concept of educational love, I will try to explore how much Vuk-Pavlović fits into the contemporary context of educational activity. This well-known thinker, with his pedagogical and philosophical considerations, certainly left his mark in the history of pedagogy and philosophy, especially in the field of the philosophy of education - therefore, the research of his thought, and most of all that which concerns educational love, is the goal of this paper.