Feb 17, 2025
“ayash means both teacher and student, learner and learned person, as does our word scholar. The scholars of a heyimas were women and men with a religious or intellectual bent; they kept that House.”
~Ursula LeGuin, in Always Coming Home
The word came to English from the Latin scholaris (learner), derived from schola (school), which has an older root in Ancient Greek σχολή (skhole). σχολή originally meant “spare time” or “leisure”, and only later came to mean “knowledge gathered through conversations during free time”.
