“The art of living is one and indivisible.
It is not a composite art made up by adding the art of play to the art of work, or the art of leisure to the art of labour, or the art of the body to the art of the mind, or the art of recreation to the art of education.
When life is divided into these or any other compartments it can never become an art, but at best a medley or at worst a mess.
It becomes an art when work and play, labour and leisure, mind and body, education and recreation, are governed by a single vision of excellence and a continuous passion for achieving it.
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play, his labour and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation.
He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing.
To himself he always seems to be doing both. Enough for him that he does it well.”
-Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, Education Through Recreation (London: University of London Press, 1932), 1-2.
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