About The School of Life

The School of Life is a new social enterprise offering good ideas for everyday living.

We are based in a small shop in Central London where we offer a variety of programmes and services concerned with how to live wisely and well.

We address such questions as why work is often unfulfilling, why relationships can be so challenging, why it’s ever harder to stay calm and what one could do to try to change the world for the better.

The School of Life is a place to step back and think intelligently about these and other concerns. You will not be cornered by any dogma, but directed towards a variety of ideas - from philosophy to literature, psychology to the visual arts – that tickle, exercise and expand your mind. You’ll meet other curious, sociable and open-minded people in an atmosphere of exploration and enjoyment.

Faculty

Rebecca Abrams, Naomi Alderman, Laura Barber, Catherine Blyth, Anne Braybon, Mark Brickman, Clare Burnett, Gregor Claude, Charles Fernyhough, Maurice Glasman, Isabelle Grey, Cathy Haynes, William Higham, Tom Hodgkinson, Roman Krznaric, Elizabeth Lynch, Lucy Neal, Sejal Parekh, Richard Reynolds, Laurence Shorter, Robert Rowland Smith, Nick Southgate, Mark Vernon, Nigel Warburton.

 

Ambassadors

Rosie Boycott, Alain de Botton, Mark Earls, Masoud Golsorkhi, Dominic Houlder, Brett Khar, Luke Johnson, Michael Morris, Toby Mundy, Martin Parr, Simon Prosser, Patrick Walsh, Lawrence Weschler.