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Johan Huizinga

“The word "school" has a curious history behind it. Meaning originally "leisure" it has now acquired precisely the opposite sense of systematic work and training, as civilization restricted the free disposal of the young man's time more and more and herded larger and larger classes of the young to a daily life of severe application from childhood onwards.”

Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture
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