Life is the Great School | Uplifting Podcasts

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Listen to episode 1051 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Life is the Great School. Edited & adapted from “The School of Life” by Henry van Dyke.

Uplifting Podcast Excerpt: Life itself is the great school. Facts are teachers. Experiences are lessons. Friends are guides. Work is a master. Love is an interpreter. Teaching itself is a method of learning. Joy carries a divining rod and discovers fountains. Sorrow is an astronomer and shows us the stars. What I have lived I really know, and what I really know I partly own; and so beginning with what I know and what I own, I move through my curriculum, elective and required, gaining nothing but what I learn, at once instructed by every duty and every pleasure.

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1:03.8	Shopify.com slash inspirational.
1:24.6	Welcome to the inspirational living podcast.
1:34.6	Today's reading has been edited and adapted from The School of Life by Henry Van Dyke, published in 1905.
1:43.3	Life itself is the great school. Facts are teachers, experiences are lessons, friends are guides, work is a master, love is an interpreter.
1:56.0	Teaching itself is a method of learning.
2:00.0	Joy carries a divining rod and discovers fountains.
2:03.6	Sorrow is an astronomer and shows us the stars.
2:09.6	What I have lived I really know, and what I really know I partly own.
2:15.6	And so beginning with what I know and what I own, I move through
2:21.2	my curriculum, elective and required, at once instructed by every duty and every pleasure.
2:31.2	It is a mistake to say, today education ends, tomorrow life begins.
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