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See also: School of Life (disambiguation)
The School of Life
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The School of Life is an educational company that offers advice on life issues. It was founded in 2008 and has branches in London (headquarters),[2] Amsterdam, Berlin, Istanbul, Paris, São Paulo,[3][4] and Taipei.[5] The company offers a variety of educational content and services covering finding fulfilling work, mastering relationships, achieving calm, understanding and changing the world.[6] The company also offers psychotherapy and bibliotherapy services and runs online and physical shops.[7] The company has a channel on YouTube, with over 7 million subscribers; it publishes one new video a week.

History

The School of Life, founded by a number of writers and thinkers, including author Alain de Botton and curator Sophie Howarth, is assisted by psychotherapists, artists, and educators.[8] The faculty includes philosophers Mark Vernon, Robert Rowland Smith, and Roman Krznaric.

Publishing

In 2016, The School of Life started its own publishing press, The School of Life Press. It has published over fifty books so far - including a range of titles on mental health for children. In 2019, a collection of the School of Life's ideas was published under the title: 'The School of Life: An Emotional Education.'

Books

  • Great Thinkers (2016)
  • Relationships (2017)
  • How to overcome your childhood (2018)
  • Anxiety (2019)
  • Big Ideas for Curious Minds (2019)
  • What they forgot to teach you at school (2020)

Criticism

The School of Life has been criticized for its inaccurate representations of philosophers and its weak philosophical arguments. The Los Angeles Review of Books has criticized a series of books by the School of Life as being a "vortex of jargon pitched somewhere between the banal banter of daytime talk shows and the schedule for a nightmarish New Age retreat."[9] Professor Hans-Georg Moeller of the University of Macau has criticized the School's video on Lao Tzu, stating that it used fabricated quotes and misrepresented the Dao De Ching.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Campus London LLP – Overview (free company information from Companies House)".
  2. ^ "Londoner's Diary: Alain De Botton and his school exit Europe". London Evening Standard. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  3. ^ "The School of Life: An Interview With Alain de Botton". HuffPost. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  4. ^ Wyndham, Susan. "Alain de Botton and his School of Life come to Sydney". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  5. ^ "International Opportunities". The School of Life. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  6. ^ "About Us". The School of Life. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  7. ^ Conrad, Peter (1 September 2013). "Life Lessons from... Bergson, Byron, Freud, Hobbes, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  8. ^ "Faculty". The School of Life. Retrieved 7 December 2016.[dead link]
  9. ^ Levy, Lisa (11 May 2013). "How To Think More (But Not Better): Alain de Botton's School of Life". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  10. ^ WORSE Philosophy Videos! School of Life on Eastern Philosophy - Lao Tzu, archived from the original on 20 December 2021, retrieved 15 June 2021
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