much more can be achieved or revealed, if we don’t do things for the sake of ritual (a thing we must do according to status quo). Its a sort of stretching of the bounds or going beyond the horizons of ontology
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I thought this was a funny joke at first, but the deeper meaning hit me after a second. As an educator wouldn't that be nice to focus on the teaching/learning and not the work.
I learn best by doing, so for me the work is actually really important for reinforcing what I've learned. If I don't have a way to apply what I've learned it'll be lost pretty quickly.
So to me you pursuing your learning via a method that works for you (practical, hands-on) is exactly what I would want to see, and that's going to look different for everybody.
By work I mean the set task we say every person has to complete despite not everyone actually needing to do the same thing the same way. It's the doing a job because I need to tick it off so my boss can tick off that I did a job, so their boss can tick off etc. Work is the silly stuff that gets in the way of learning.