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Our society assumes that emotional education might be either unnecessary or in its essence
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unteachable, lying beyond reason and best abandoned to individual instinct.
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We are left to find our own path around our unfeasibly complicated minds – a move as
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wise as leaving each generation to rediscover the
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laws of physics by themselves. But The School of Life believe that the journey
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to finding fulfilment begins with self- knowledge, with emotional intelligence.
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The emotionally intelligent person is able to introspect and communicate, to read the
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moods of others, to relate with patience, charity and imagination to those around them.
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The emotionally intelligent person knows how to hope and be grateful, while remaining
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steadfast before the essentially tragic structure of existence.
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The emotionally intelligent person is committed to fathoming their inadequacies.
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There can wisely be no solutions that remove problems altogether. What we can aim for,
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at best, is consolation. To believe in consolation
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means giving up on cures; it means accepting that life is a hospice rather than a hospital,
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but one we'd like to render as comfortable, as
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interesting and kind as possible. The School of Life dares to believe that we
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might learn, in good time and systematically, what we might otherwise acquire only through
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many decades of stumbling. The School of Life teaches us how we can live
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a little better through a deeper understanding of:
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The Self Others
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Our Relationships Our Work
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And our Culture If, as a society, we have collectively left
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to chance some of what it is most important to
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know, if we have denied ourselves the opportunity to systematically transmit wisdom, then
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The School of Life is a modest attempt to try to spare us a bit of time.
