They need to grow up joyous and passionate about learning, and that doesn't happen from giving them content.
"Maybe it was the wig and that rather severe expression, but I didn't get beyond that, and I couldn't connect the incredibly ebullient and joyous music I was learning as a kid – the Brandenburg Concertos and the motets – with this rather stern looking kapellmeister [conductor].
During our joyous meeting, we learned that Kenneth Bae still hopes for reconciliation between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea.
This was great; now I had an expert confirming that my kids were learning, in a joyous, self-directed way, concepts that they'd otherwise have to be "force-fed in first grade," as Mr. Buckleitner put it.
To me, it quietly suggests something a little scary but also exciting: learning how to eat is engaging and joyous, useful — not holy, because in Julia's world nothing was — but transformative, changing how one tastes and cooks.
"It was a joyous moment when we learned that legal immigrant children would be covered".
The irony, of course, is linguistic, not real, because working for peace is a process of connecting and bonding with others in deep and joyous ways, which I learned again and again during the conference weekend.
In particular, many young Muslims were shocked to learn that a joyous and familiar ritual had given way to a brutal killing.
Recently, when a turbulent flight caused me to start planning my own funeral, I remembered something I'd learned in my research: Joyous people are grateful people.
Yet the movie, shot on sunshiny, light-filled days, feels joyous and loose-limbed, and the audience learns to relax and go with it.
