"The protected, and usually large, physical spaces that creative individuals demand for their work — studios, libraries, laboratories — are matched by the protected expanses of time that they stake out, day after day, across their careers. These regularly repeated periods, often whole mornings or afternoons, are so massive that they become quasi-physical presences whose substance can be sculpted into regular achievement. I call these expanses of time 'chronocosms' (time worlds): periods that set up their own unique time dynamics, develop an integrity all their own. People unaquainted with such time worlds have little chance to experience creative insight."
Robert Grudin, The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990),p. 83-84.
Or as Rousseau wrote in Émile, to teach a child (or anyone for that matter) we must lose the time in order to save it. That includes teaching ourselves.
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