Despite Quote by Peter Farb

At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class.

— Eric Jay Beck

“There is no such thing as primitive in the way Western education has traditionally conditioned people to perceive it.”

— Gregory Cajete

“Among this people there is no leisure class. We often forget that in the United States over half the youth and adults are not…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“The word "school" has a curious history behind it. Meaning originally "leisure" it has now acquired precisely the opposite sense of systematic work and…

— Johan Huizinga

We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every…

— Marge Piercy

Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort, ordinary people…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“In the educated class even social life is a series of aptitude tests; we all must perpetually perform in accordance with the shifting norms…

— David Brooks

The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from…

— Thorstein Veblen

I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search for criteria…

— Ivan Illich

In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for…

— David Riesman

It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish…

— William Butler Yeats

“This is important because our behavior is affected by our assumptions or our perceived truths. We make decisions based on what we think we…

— Simon Sinek