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The School of Life is a global organization committed to emotional education and well-being. It focuses on delivering psychotherapy, as well as drawing upon culture more generally, to illuminate topics of emotional concern. It treats individuals, couples, families and organizations, publishes books, makes films and runs ten centres around the
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
La fréquentation de l’école marque aussi l’entrée dans la vie sociale, la « vie réelle » avec ses découvertes : « l’ambition et le désespoir, les conflits avec soi et la conscience de soi, l’insatisfaction et le déchirement intérieur, les combats et les égards pour autrui, ainsi que le cycle infini des journées143 ».
François Mathieu • Hermann Hesse, poète ou rien (Biographies, Autobiographies) (French Edition)
I had sailed through the first six years of my schooling with remarkable ease and with the comfortable knowledge that no one in any of my classes could touch me. That ended, however, when I entered high school in 1932 and joined the tenth grade. One trouble was that I didn’t go to the neighborhood high school, Thomas Jefferson High School. I wanted
... See moreIsaac Asimov • I, Asimov: A Memoir
By the second week in September I reached the conclusion that a university education was meaningless. I decided to think of it as a period of training in techniques for dealing with boredom. I had nothing I especially wanted to accomplish in society that would require me to abandon my studies straight away, and so I went to my lectures each day,
... See moreHaruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
Sven Schnieders • The Death of Intellectual Curiosity
official name is Dhading Boarding school, this may sound posh, but it was no Eton. Thirty students had sleeping quarters, they’re homes were a long distance for the daily commute. In total there were four hundred pupils.
Sean Breen • 1-Way Ticket
