It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking onto the matter.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Education and entertainment are not fundamentally different; treating them as such avoids responsibility.
- In plain terms
- There is no real line between learning and fun; pretending there is avoids work.
- What can you take from it?
- Stop treating learning and fun as separate to avoid avoiding responsibility.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Where do you draw the line between fun and learning?
- Who avoids responsibility by separating these?
Another view
Some forms of entertainment clearly lack educational value.
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