NEW IDLER OUT NOW!
03 May 2006
The Idler 37: Childish Things is out today and it’s a stormer. MICHAEL PALIN reflects on a job-free life and reveals his Zen-like personal philosophy… TOM HODGKINSON attacks supernanny and the the modern trend for zealous over-parenting… Our children are forgetting how to play, he says, and we should LEAVE THEM ALONE! … NICHOLAS LEZARD writes on the indolent genius of SAMUEL BECKETT… plus BERTRAND RUSSELL on the need for freedom in education… and we profile SUMMERHILL SCHOOL where the kids vote on everything… plus BILL DRUMMOND, MARK MANNING, CHRIS YATES, SARAH JANES, JOHN MOORE, WILL HODGKINSON, JOCK SCOT, JOHN NICHOLSON and all the rest of the ne’er do wells. BUY IT NOW!
"An idle mind is a questioning, sceptical mind. Hence it is a mind not too bound up with ephemeral things, as the minds of workers are. The idler, then, is somebody who separates himself from his occupation: there are many people scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation."