“Leisure and Creativity”

Tuesday  in the early morning  Mystie

I linked eight months ago to what has set Cindy’s, of Dominion Family, brain brewing: “Leisure: The Basis of Schooling.”

She’s posted off and on about this topic since then and it’s been very interesting and has set me thinking in ways I wouldn’t have otherwise, I’m sure.

She’s written a pretty succinct post on the topic again, and I want to both share it and file it away, so here it is:

##Leisure & Creativity

Because learning is hard work, the learner must have time (leisure) to assimilate. That is why entertainment is the antithesis of leisure. Entertainment pulls the learner away from contemplation, keeping him too busy to learn. [...] Somewhere in this thought is the seed for the idea that classical education is not, in the early years, the efficient memorization of facts. The early school years are not the time to be cracking the whip, but rather the time to be developing the palate.

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