It will come as no surprise even to homeschooling families that "Slack"--the ideal of dolce far niente ("sweet doing nothing")--seems to have become the life goal of all too many young people in our land, and of their elders as well. The "kidz" aspire only to be players: playing music, playing a role or playing sports. Add to these the adult fantasies of playing the lottery, the ponies or the slots. Daydreams of millionaire celebrity crowd out worthier and more realistic aspirations. Work itself, not to mention hard work, is now shunned as radically as ...