hy is nobody idle any
more?
I mean openly, to-
tally, cheerfully idle,
and by choice. The in-
dustrial world is no doubt full of people who could work harder, and know it, full of procrastinators and easy riders. But no one seems content to achieve nothing any more, whether at school and college, or in industry or the professions. When I first taught at a uni- versity-in the Midwest during the
1950s-a good fifth of the students, it was widely accepted, did no work, or next to none, and w...