sub specie ludi

In every invention and in every intellectual construct, there should be (or sometimes must have been) "life," an autotelic process to integrate individual inner drive and resources of outer world.

This is the idea proposed by Johan Huizinga's (1955) famous book "Homo Ludens," which is the original source of Play Theory.

Despite its name, it has a profound insight into the nature of human and the creative evolution, which is also seen in books by renowned philosophers such as Henri Bergson.

This is also true for education. Alfred North Whitehead, one of the greatest philosophers in the modern time states in his speech "The Aims of Education" as follows: