People are beginning to escape from the rigid set that work is done in an office/factory (the two words are collapsed since they are becoming more and more difficult to distinguish) and learning is done in a school/university. I once overheard one editor in my publishing company saying to another "I won't be in the office tomorrow, Terry, I've got some work to do". Recently, a current colleague of mine blurted out, when asked about his schedule: "I work in the morning and come to the office in the afternoon".

      Attitudes of the other members of the family must change in order to make "homework" feasible. A professor on sabbatical, trying to write a book at home, was constantly interrupted by his wife and children. They had to establish a convention. After breakfast together, he would put on his coat, pick up his briefcase, kiss them all good-bye, and walk out the front door and in the back door to his office. As far as everyone was concerned, Daddy was at the office until the ritual was repeated in reverse in the evening.