Should (and Can) Education Be Joyful?

When you reflect back on your education, what do you remember? Are your memories mostly positive, joyful even, or are they largely neutral or even negative? Unfortunately for many people, their education was delivered in a way that did not manage to inspire our natural, human, innate curiosity for new information. What characteristics make the difference between those positive experiences and those that were less joyful or inspiring?

On another hand, some might raise the question of whether edu...