Cultivate Your Leisure
The Idler Academy is a school and bookseller founded in 2011 by Tom Hodgkinson and Victoria Hull with the intention of providing lifelong education in useful, enjoyable but neglected subjects. The ancient Greek word schole, which turned into our word for “school”, originally meant “free time”. It was with this Athenian sense of the importance of cultivated leisure that the Idler Academy was conceived.
Our motto is libertas per cultum, meaning “freedom through education”.
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Foraging and Philosophy Weekend, Exmoor, 28 – 30 June
FEED YOU MIND, SOUL AND BODY on our foraging and philosophy weekend. Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson and Academy founder Victoria Hull will be joined by philosopher Mark Vernon and forager Lucia Stuart for a weekend of soul food and mindful …
Grammar Wars!
VARIOUS BLOCKHEADS over the last couple of weeks have laughably attempted to assert that to promote and discuss good grammar automatically means that you are a Tory. It’s been surprising to me, having written four books which have attempted to …
Hodgkinson’s Register, 7 May 2013
IT APPEARS THAT our merry band of ukulele-playing, grammar-loving freedom-seekers has recruited a new member: one Michael Gove, the UK’s Secretary of State for Education.
We learned this week that Mr Gove’s wife, journalist Sarah Vine, has bought him …
Now Booking: Idler Summer School
BEAUTY AND TRUTH are core curriculum subjects on the programme for our Summer School. This is a week long chance to embrace the contemplative life and study philosophy, ukulele, grammar and more with our best teachers. There will be lectures …
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