The concept of joyful learning is a very rich, rewarding, and innovative idea in a

system of education, particularly when it gets entangled in the labyrinth of rote

learning, mere information gathering, insensitive teaching and unintelligent learning.
It is a therapeutic concept in a situation where wisdom and knowledge get
replaced by information, and the system of education becomes socially irrelevant. It
is a concept which should constitute the core of any system of education worth its
name. It is a pivotal concept around which the objectives, the means, and modalities
of the system of education should revolve.

Joyful learning is learning with joy and for joy. It is both

joyful and joy yielding. It is the means and the end, the process and the outcome, the beginning, the middle, and the
end. Learning is a process of unfoldment of
inherent potentialities for the realization of perfection, which, as we said earlier,
consists in a joyful state of existence, a state of unalloyed bliss. With each step in
the process of learning, at each moment in the duration of learning, there should be
the gradual realization of perfection and consequent attainment of joy. This is the
ultimate objective of all education. Education for jobs or livelihoods, etc., is only a
means. It does not have an end value. It is valuable only for the sake of the ultimate
value of joy.

The foregoing analysis has a very interesting implication for the process of education.
The learning situation should never be painful and boring. It should not
cause any strain on our learner. Otherwise it is not a genuine learning situation. It
will then be anti-learning. This requires a proper framing of the curriculum and
syllabus and also an appropriate teaching–learning situation. In this respect, both
the logical and psychological orders involved in the process of education should be
given due attention and care. Logical order is needed for proper arrangement of the
instructional material involved in the curriculum, syllabus, and textbooks.
Psychological order is needed to ensure the sustained interest of the learner. These
two orders are mutually supporting and reinforcing. They are not antithetical and
they go hand in hand. So along with the psychological foundation, the logical
foundation should also be taken into consideration in a balanced process of
education.

(Bhatt 2018)