schole

"We can't dismiss the point that democratic self-governance requires a kind of cultivation among citizens that can only happen when they don't devote all of their energy to earning a living. In Aristotle's words, a citizen's virtue requires that one be 'freed from necessary tasks'; it requires the capacity for 'leisured activity' or schole, from which we derive the word school.

Rights and equality before the law mean little in a democracy unless individuals have the scope to develop their humanity in a way that is free from the yoke of economic compulsion."

                                               -  Roosevelt Montas, Rescuing Socrates