Archive for February, 2009
2.17.09
The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful. “But,” says one, “you do not mean that the students should go to work with their hands instead of their [...]
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When we learn about the Industrial Revolution as youth, the plough is attributed as a tipping point for industrialization – enabling farmers to work more efficiently, producing more in less time. This allowed them to have a surplus that could be traded for other goods, and it also freed up labor to work in factories [...]
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