First iterations of school

Once clocks were invented, our time was no longer ours. It is someone else’s. We call it “free time” when we are off the clock for a reason. Believe it or not, the early Greek word “scole” or “skole” meant “leisure.” It led to the Latin word “scola” and the English word “school” or “scholar”—thus implying a close connection between leisure and education. Which is vastly different than what we think school should accomplish today.