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"To increase the joy in our classrooms, we teachers need to cultivate an abundance-oriented approach. That doesn’t mean tossing aside our strong sense of purpose—it means shifting our viewpoint away from competition, in which we no longer seek to be better than others, and instead focusing on being the best that we can be, regardless of how fellow educators are progressing."

“Children shouldn’t be overly scheduled. They should have blocks of time to promote spontaneity and creativity” (Schwartz, 2014).

Finnish educators will probably not inspire us with innovative teaching strategies, because many of Finland’s pedagogical innovations have been adopted from North America and elsewhere. But what we can learn from them, they seem to value happiness more than achievement. They make small, simple decisions to promote joyful teaching and learning, and as numerous PISA tests have shown, their students do well anyway.