Cultivating Leisure in the Classroom
Regular church attendance and daily chapel establish a culture of leisure, because divine worship is the source of all leisure.
December 2, 2024
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Regular church attendance and daily chapel establish a culture of leisure, because divine worship is the source of all leisure.
A man at leisure is happy to be human. He realizes that he isn’t bound to instinct and survival like an animal, but that his gifts of reason and language set him apart as something more.
“Man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refuses to have anything as a gift.”
It may seem odd at first, but the life of Leonardo da Vinci provides some interesting insights on the nature of learning.