Studying as drudgery rather than adventure diminishes actual capacity

Evidence

The child who sweats at Barbara , Baralipton 36 is certainly performing a tiring task, and it is important that he does only what is absolutely necessary and no more. But it is also true that it will always be an effort to learn physical self-discipline and self-control; the pupil has, in effect, to undergo a psycho-physical training. Many people have to be persuaded that studying too is a job, and a very tiring one, with its own particular apprenticeship—involving muscles and nerves as well as intellect. It is a process of adaptation, a habit acquired with effort, tedium and even suffering. Wider participation in secondary education brings with it a tendency to ease off the discipline of studies, and to ask for “relaxations”. Many even think that the difficulties of learning are artificial, since they are accustomed to think only of manual work as sweat and toil. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 369 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Study is a physically and mentally tiring apprenticeship — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 369; Prolonged attention transforms what initially seems boring; Enthusiasm-puncturing academics breed more grey vampires through belittled students — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2446 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Prolonged attention transforms what initially seems boring #qualifies (0.78)
• Study is a physically and mentally tiring apprenticeship #expands (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 369