Joy: A Subject Schools Lack - The Atlantic - 1 views
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The thing that sets children apart from adults is not their ignorance, nor their lack of skills. It’s their enormous capacity for joy.
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Human lives are governed by the desire to experience joy. Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues rather than stringing together nonsense words, for example
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In some cases, schools should help children find new, more grown-up ways of doing the same things that are perennial sources of joy: making art, making friends, making decisions
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