For those of us who think that being an educator takes over too much of their life or in the words of a colleague this morning, "What life?", Hugh McLeod has an alternative take to consider.

...in the last hundred years or so we lost the plot. Suddenly "Leisure" started taking over. Suddenly useless things like lying on a beach, reading trashy novels, watching dumb movies, going shopping, attending art openings, and visiting Disneyland started to become not only common, but an end in itself.