I'm not sure acquiring pleasure from education, gaining knowledge, can be taught. It is something I have, as I'm sure everyone on this site has, that moment of pleasure when research opens up new insights.
One of the most important things that a teacher is to gain is the love of the student ... adding to the good preparation of the lecturer so that the amount of delivery to the student in a fun and interesting manner
here are several reasons why schools, educational institutions or universities are ineffective:
Curriculum, Plans and Programs of Study badly elaborated and with insufficient theoretical and practical foundations
Lack of vocation of teachers
Lack of pedagogical preparation or in the education sciences of teachers, it is not enough to be an expert in their disciplinary field
Performing educational processes passively through obsolete strategies, technologies and methods; such is the case of the predominance of the Teaching, Chair, Classroom and Conferences
I would like to change the word pleasure of students in curiosity of students combined with motivation to work together between teacher and students. My observation is that children about up to 8 years are as curious as children usually are. With increasing age we force them to absorb knowledge instead of abilities together with knowledge. Students have 10 years of hard training behind them to distrain their creativity.
There is a simple test to prove this: ask 8 years old children a question and you get answers of each of them. Ask students a question and you get no answer.
Effective teaching comes naturally when the pleasure of teachers and students for the subject is heightened. Teachers and students must be intrinsically and externally motivated.
However, teachers must first spark the passion of their subjects to learners and they in turn would fall in love with the subjects, thereby resulting in maximized learning outcomes.
Pleasure in Education? If education is for getting a degree for a high paying job and leads to stress - both mental and financial - how can there be pleasure in education? Why is one educating oneself? Just learning with no reasons like getting a job then it may be different.
Yes educating oneself can be made pleasurable by the teacher's motivation and curiosity of the students.
In general I have observed that the standard of teaching learning process has been deteriorating day by day.
To some extent senior academicians like Vice Chancellors, Provosts, Deans of the Universities, The Ministry of technical education or higher education as the case may be and teaching faculty members are responsible.
The so called 'experts' are not 'experts' and if few of them are expert they don't have courage to face the authority or regulatory agencies.
The faculty members after completion of Master's in Engineering join as Lecturer/Assistant Professor and start teaching the students. What quality do you expect from such fresh teachers? A teacher who has not seen boiler in his life is teaching Boilers to his students.
The experts who are in Board of Governance in the University are interested in developing relationship and do not want to be rival and accept all that is proposed- the pedagogy, the credit structure and so on are left to incompetent persons. The competent expert persons keep low profile to avoid friction has resulted into deterioration.
The system and sub systems must function in its correct perspective and should not be prey of some few politicians.
If pleasure is lost in education for students, schools and educational institutions will be meaningless at all.
If you eliminate the pleasure of thinking students' simple questions and answers to their questions with students, education itself will not make sense.
It is important to introduce study about practices relating to international or domestic trends on human rights education and effective teaching methodology, they obtain necessary knowledge and skills to teach students to respect human rights.
From my experience, the ineffectiveness problem of education is not necessarily in the loss of pleasure, but more in other reasons as e.g. the importance of intrinsic motivation of each one.
I prefer to focus the problem in the intrinsic motivation in long term as it gives more sustainability for greater pleasure and for active involvement in the activities. It involves understanding of reasons to improve.
The pleasure is simple to solve, e.g. by "nice" teachers. The intrinsic motivation is more hard and require very competent teachers in broader fields.
From Gerald Hüther we know that external driven (forced) learning is not possible done with motivation. The will of learning is in each living being. We just have to stimulate this internal learning will. Our education system is heavily the opposite. We force children and students by detailed curricula to learn what we think is necessary: 95 % external dictated learning. This will not work. We have tremendous gaps for optimization. Not an easy way to go after