Tom Sawyer & Learning

from let's THiNK about it · host Ryder Richards

Part 2 playing with the Tom Sawyer parable, where work can become play. Ryder jumps into how we identity ourselves through our leisure time, only to feed a capitalist machine. Then he swings into amusement and learning, criticizing edutainment, but more concerned with choice and attitude in how we approach hobby, labor and learning. Tom Sawyer and Learning

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A continuation of Tom Sawyer's conversion of work to play, with some discussion of how our leisure time is labor, and how learning is a chore we wish to escape.

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