Marketing expert Seth Godin once made this observation about motivation: “If it’s work, we try to figure out how to do less; if it’s art, we try to figure out how to do more.”
This concept can be beautifully applied to many areas of life, including homeschool. In fact, if we think of much of the drudgery or busy work that we might associate with school—like comprehension questions, multiple-choice tests, watered-down textbook synopses of otherwise great literature—we can see that those things feel like work. The same (or better) learning objectives can be achieved with an approach that feels more like art.
