The School of Life’s Summer Term

Overview

The School of Life, brainchild of modern philosopher Alain de Botton, offers students a different kind of learning. Having started in London in 2008, de Botton's unconventional classrooms have recently opened their doors here in Melbourne, kicking off for a summer term.

This isn’t your usual curriculum. Here you’ll learn things like how to think more about sex, have better conversations, and find a job you love. According to de Botton, work and love create the most problems for people in everyday life, thus the school aims to offer new and insightful tools to help students overcome these problems and better their worlds.

On top of classes, the school is set to host a number of events and talks. Craig Sherborne takes a Sunday sermon on being ordinary, you can feast on both food and heated discussion at dinner with Simone de Beauvoir, and the Breakfast Club will serve up philosophical ideas over your morning pastry.

Forget the textbooks, just take an open mind.

Image by David Michael.