Joy

Joy is principled action

Joy is the essence of celebration

Joy is the result of work well done

the educational implication of joy
lies in this correspondence of joy to work

sports creates joy in its participants
because they must work hard

mental work is also work
working hard mentally can lead to great joy

Joy needs celebration to know itself

Joy wants us to work so that we can celebrate

Joy needs play to know itself

even though our work impacts other people
work can be done in isolation
play and celebration reject isolation

when we rob our work of personal meaning
we rob our souls of celebration

when we rob education of personal meaning
we are the vampires sucking
the souls of our students

Celebrate!