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”.
News
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 …
Hodgkinson’s Register, 24 April 2013
WILL THE ATTACKS on the idling community by the passionless utilitarians in the House of Commons never cease? First the British Chancellor announced a budget that was designed to help “hard-working families” and “those who want to get on”. And …
