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Starting from Coleridge’s ode On Dejection the essay attempts to define complex relationships between dejection and joy also in the domain of pedagogy conceived of as the exercise in practicing the art of living. Faust’s complaint of the elimination of joy from teaching and learning clearly aims at a larger social project: a society of people who are active and critically assess social and political reality of the day. “Training”, which education has become, adapts the individual to perform repetitive tasks in order to adapt well to an increasingly mechanistic world. Already in the early decades of the 19th century, Thomas Carlyle said that if he had been looking for a single term to describe the new age, he would have found it in the word 'mechanical'. We understand joy as an inclusive rationality that not only allows for that which does not submit to the rigours of the currently valid understanding of rationality, but is capable of taking a step back on the path of “progress” made under the sign of rationality. It turns out to be necessary to accept the postulate of multiple ways of domiciling in the world, all of which apply in a “mild way”. Such mildness creates the right aura for the joy that comes from the practice of co-being with others.

Background: Pain, fear, depression often accompany patients as complications after stroke. They can usually take the shape of patients' defensive reaction, who must struggle with physical and psychical consequences of stroke. Degree of those feelings' intensity and the reactions related to them are individual for every patient. Aim of the study: The aim of the research was to determine the effect of post-stroke pain on the daily functioning of the patient and determine whether anxiety and depression determine the effects of treatment and return to activities of daily living after stroke. Material and methods: Research instruments were: an author's questionnaire and the research scales (SOPL, Lawton's IADL Scale, Katz Index and Doloplus Pain Scale). The study sample consisted of 31 patients from the Rehabilitation Department in Saint Roch Hospital in Ozimek. The research was carried out from October 2013 to March 2014. Results: The feeling of the fear and depressed appeared among 41.93% (13) patients and it was in the limit of normality. Symptoms of depression appeared among 6% (2) of respondents. The pain occurred among 90% (28) of patients, however, in the opinion of the patients did not constitute a serious obstacle to the continuation of the rehabilitation and daily functioning. The Katz Index revealed that 58% (18) of the patients did not need help with basic activities of daily life. Conclusions: Pain, anxiety, and depression had no significant effect on the course of the rehabilitation of patients in the study group. The pain did not decrease significantly physical activity. Potential problems with the daily functioning of patients through the process of rehabilitation, have been largely eliminated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]