Everybody has, inside himself, certain powers of development and growth: interests and abilities that make him what he is and not someone else. Developing these things is education in the real sense of the word. Nobody ever develops all his powers fully: most people develop only a very small proportion of them. But the need to grow and expand as ahuman being is the most omportant need we have. We’re always being told that we shouldn’t grow but adjust, do waht toehr pweople are doing, even if it means stunting and twisting our own growth. TRhata’s a lie. It’s the most fully grown people who are best adjusted; the warped and stuned people never are. In a society like ours there’s no excuse fir depruiving anybody of a social dunxtrion , and the growing amount of free trime means that more people will have more time to develop their own itnerests and abilities. that is, they’ll have more leisure. We may develop the mechanical means to get back to a world opf pure leisure. But hte old stories of paradise an a golden age and of how we lost it so easilyu were right after all. We can’t stay ion a world of leisure mechanically b ecause leisure is not something you gert: its something you are. ”Perspective, my friend, is an art of life.” – Melvin, Lover of Mayzor.
