I went to school with children who had weekend Kumon lessons in maths.
When Johnson was in high school, he took weekend pitching lessons from Joe Jordan, then a scout for the Montreal Expos.
New Orleans WHEN Aug. 23-25 WHY The New Orleans TangoFest offers a weekend of lessons, shows, parties and dinners for Tango novices and expert dancers alike.
When I was in northern Germany at the Max-Planck-Institut, I traded weekend German lessons from a local schoolteacher for the American conversation that she craved.
Mr. Vanorio reports that both the weekday and weekend outdoor riding lessons he offers are completely booked even throughout December.
And his father, a misanthropic ex-I.B.M. corporate manager, retired at forty-nine ("So I could golf, drink beer, bowl, and play blackjack at Indian casinos," he told me), was summoned one weekend to give lessons in how to run a business and stayed for years.
In school we sometimes care more about our social life and weekend plans than lessons, so it is commendable to capture a student's memory long enough to last a lifetime.
In New York City alone, crowds of 200,000 and 250,000 people flocked to his 1999 and 2003 public talks in Central Park, respectively, and Radio City Music Hall has been at full capacity this past weekend for his lessons on "emptiness" and the path to enlightenment through the Diamond Cutter Sutra and Seventy Verses on Emptiness.
The equation was simple: they were better served by a teacher with some joie de vivre than by a fed-up zombie who'd stayed in all weekend filling in lesson plans.
I've done my best to avoid scheduling every hour of their days; to resist the pressure to fill their afternoons and weekends with music lessons, dance lessons, language lessons or sports.
