The School of Life

The School of Life
Traded as Three 13 Solutions, Campus London LLP, ELOE Limited, STOA Limited.[1]
Founder Alain de Botton[2]
Website www.theschooloflife.com Edit this on Wikidata

The School of Life is an educational company that offers advice on life issues. It was co-founded in 2008 by Alain de Botton. It has branches in London (headquarters),[3] Antwerp, Amsterdam, Berlin, Istanbul, Melbourne, México City,[4] Paris, São Paulo, Sydney,[5][6] Seoul, Taipei, and Tel Aviv.[7] The School offers a variety of programmes and services covering finding fulfilling work, mastering relationships, achieving calm, and understanding and changing the world.[8] The School also offers psychotherapy and bibliotherapy services and runs online and physical shops[9] which have been described as "apothecaries for the mind".[10]

History

Alain de Botton, founder of The School of Life (2011).

In 2008, "The School of Life" was founded by Alain de Botton, along with a number of writers, artists, and educators.[11] The faculty includes philosophers Mark Vernon, Robert Rowland Smith, and writer John Armstrong.[12]

Activities

The School of Life offers a curriculum of classes claiming to teach emotional intelligence. The School of Life alleges that its classes help to explore ways to make various parts of one's lifestyle more fulfilling.[13]

The School of Life posts films twice a week on its YouTube channel, which has approximately 3.5 million subscribers. The films cover a variety of topics related to emotional intelligence and philosophy.[14]

Shop

The London branch of The School of Life has a small shop on Marchmont Street in Central London.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Campus London LLP – Overview (free company information from Companies House)".
  2. ↑ "Fresh findings point to solution for financial education". FTAdviser. Financial Times. May 31, 2017. Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  3. ↑ "Londoner's Diary: Alain De Botton and his school exit Europe". London Evening Standard. April 10, 2017. Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  4. ↑ "Andrés Roemer inaugura en México primera librería". www.notimex.gob.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-09-22.
  5. ↑ "The School of Life: An Interview With Alain de Botton". HuffPost. Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  6. ↑ Wyndham, Susan. "Alain de Botton and his School of Life come to Sydney". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  7. ↑ "International Opportunities". The School of Life. Retrieved 2016-09-20.
  8. ↑ "About Us". The School of Life. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
  9. 1 2 Conrad, Peter (1 September 2013). "Life Lessons from... Bergson, Byron, Freud, Hobbes, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
  10. ↑ "The School of Life [Monocle]". Monocle (UK magazine). 3 September 2008. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
  11. ↑ "Faculty". The School of Life. Retrieved 2016-12-07.
  12. ↑ Coombes, Phil (4 October 2010). "Street photography now". BBC News. Retrieved 2016-12-07.
  13. ↑ "Sunday Express Magazine". The School of Life. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
  14. ↑ "The School of Life YouTube Channel". YouTube. Retrieved 2017-03-17.


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