- Joyful learning is not only just something that provides happiness to learners, it's in fact something that leads to achievement and other metrics anyway. - We often think of happiness and joy as an outcome but it is actually a precursor to success and achieving anything. ----- the way in which they seem to value happiness more than achievement. They make small, simple decisions to promote joyful teaching and learning, and in the end, as numerous PISA tests have shown, their students do well anyway - Timothy Walker in [[Teach Like Finland]] Decades of research have shown that happiness is not the outcome of success but rather its precursor - Timothy Walker in [[Teach Like Finland]]