The Necessity of Leisure

"Leisure is a form of that stillness that is necessary preparation for accepting reality; only a person who is still can hear, and whoever is not still, cannot hear.  Such stillness as this is not mere soundlessness or a dead muteness; it means, rather, that the soul's power, as real, of responding to the real - a co-respondence, eternally established in nature - has not yet descended into words.  Leisure is the disposition of receptive understanding, of contemplative beholding, and immersion - in the real."  (Leisure The Basis of Culture, Josef Pieper, page 31)

You may be covering material, memorizing, testing, computing, but unless you have leisure - "a disposition of receptive understanding, of contemplative beholding, and immersion" - you don't have true learning.