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Life is the lesson.
The world is our classroom.

Songs, stories and real-world adventures that help children think, try, fail, grow—and become ready for a future nobody can predict.

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☺ ◉ ★Made for curious families
Learn together. Grow together.
Professor LOL inspecting a glass of water with a magnifying glass beside a sand, charcoal and cloth filter outdoors
PROFESSOR LOLLet’s find out!Chief Curiosity Officer
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The World Is
Our Classroom.

Explore the world with Professor LOL. Discover where food comes from, how cities work, what happens inside your body, and what lies beyond Earth.

24 richly illustrated chapters filled with tiny stories, things to find and questions to explore together.

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60-SECOND INTRODUCTIONMeet Professor LOL

Your guide to the wonderfully unknown

Meet Professor LOL.

He never gives children a boring answer when a brilliant question will do. Professor LOL turns science, feelings, money, nature, mistakes and everyday adventures into lessons children want to remember.

“The smartest person in the room is often the one brave enough to say: I don’t know—let’s find out.”

Learning of Life on YouTube

Watch the world become
our classroom.

Follow Professor LOL, our family learning adventures, real-world missions and short ideas about raising curious, capable children.

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The complete school system

How Learning of Life works.

Every weekday combines strong academic foundations with one real-world learning loop. Professor LOL adapts the challenge to the child and connects the experience back to maths, language, science and life skills.

Learning of Life five-day journey: Day 1 Wonder, Day 2 Question, Day 3 Experiment, Day 4 Build and Day 5 Contribute, following two brothers through one water project
One topic grows across the week—from curiosity to something useful in the world.
The purposeChildren do not only know the answer. They learn how to investigate, create and use knowledge in the world.See the weekly result

A newspaper made for every student

Every Friday:
The LOL Times.

Professor LOL turns each student’s week into a customized newspaper—with the topics they have mastered, discoveries they have made and interesting news and facts from around the world.

Mastered topicsPersonal progressWorld newsNew questions
Example of The LOL Times, a customized Friday newspaper showing a student's weekly learning and world newsSee an example

Learning of Life Journal

Stories from our
world classroom.

Two brothers practising Muay Thai with a coach in Chiang MaiNewest4 October 2026Why do we train children’s minds but neglect their bodies?Read story →Two children examining mosquito larvae in rainwater while an adult watches nearby3 October 2026Before the answer, create the need to knowRead story →A father and two boys exploring a world map at an open-air school2 October 2026Curiosity is not a curriculum. But a curriculum is not an education.Read story →An education tree showing different ways children learn and grow20 September 2026Are we preparing children for exams, or for life?Read story →Children learning to swim in a clear natural river pool19 September 2026Learning to swim without chasing a diplomaRead story →Two boys investigating a leaking tap at a tropical school18 September 2026The ordinary problems that teach children how to liveRead story →Two brothers learning with coins at a kitchen table10 September 2026Every parent wants the best. Why should education depend on what we can pay?Read story →Illustration of two boys exploring robotics and the changing world10 September 2026Our children study the past. They should study the future too.Read story →Two brothers learning about money, food and measurement at a market4 September 2026The subjects schools forgot to teachRead story →Two brothers testing handmade foil boats with coins28 August 2026AI shouldn’t do your child’s homeworkRead story →Two brothers exploring a city and railway from a mountain trail21 August 2026Why my kids don’t need to choose between school and the worldRead story →Children learning together in a rural classroom in China14 August 2026From pressure to curiosityRead story →Children meeting Chinese opera performers during their return to China7 August 2026Returning to ChinaRead story →The Komodo Camper overlooking a remote Indonesian coastline30 June 2026From Bali to a world classroomRead story →The Grounded learning project surrounded by Bali rice fields31 May 2026From rice fields to the Komodo CamperRead story →

The complete learning journey

52 weeks of big topics.
Endless questions.

From water, electricity and sugar to artificial intelligence, justice and climate—one real-world topic for every week of the year.

Professor LOL's complete 52-week Learning of Life roadmap
See the whole year52 topics • 365 days of discoveryDownload overview PNG

Week 1 • Print. Explore. Discover.

One big question.
Seven days of Water Week.

Turn water into a week of real-life discovery. Preview each mission, download the original PNG, print it and let Professor LOL guide the adventure.

Day 1 printable worksheet: The Water Cycle
Day 1

The Water Cycle

Follow one drop through evaporation, clouds and rain.

Watch Professor LOL mission: Water in the rainforest
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Day 2 printable worksheet: Water Pressure & Flow
Day 2

Water Pressure & Flow

Test how water moves and what changes its speed.

Watch Professor LOL mission: Water at Niagara Falls
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Day 3 printable worksheet: Water Scarcity & Access
Day 3

Water Scarcity & Access

Explore why clean water is not equally available everywhere.

Watch Professor LOL mission: Water at Lake Turkana, Kenya
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Day 4 printable worksheet: Water in the Body
Day 4

Water in the Body

Discover why every part of us depends on water.

Watch Professor LOL mission: Water at the Dead Sea, Jordan
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Day 5 printable worksheet: Design a Water System
Day 5

Design a Water System

Plan a system that moves water where it is needed.

Watch Professor LOL mission: Water in the Netherlands
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Day 6 printable worksheet: Water Purification
Day 6

Water Purification

Investigate how dirty water can become cleaner.

Watch Professor LOL mission: Water in Singapore
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Day 7 printable worksheet: Design Our Water Future
Day 7

Design Our Water Future

Create one bold idea for a water-wise world.

Watch Professor LOL mission: Water at Lake Baikal, Russia
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One world. Endless lessons.

Learning grows
like a tree.With 150 life-skill learning songs.

Every question becomes a root. Every skill becomes a branch. Children do not collect answers—they build a way of thinking that keeps growing with them.

Try your first family mission →
The Grounded Learning Tree showing 15 Learning of Life albums, 150 songs, core capabilities, roots and life lessons
Tap the tree to explore all 15 albums and 150 songs

Lessons you can sing

Press play.
Let ideas stick.

Learning of Life songs turn big ideas into words children can carry into the playground, the classroom and the rest of their lives.

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For parents who see what is coming

The future will not ask children to repeat the past.

It will ask them to think.To separate a first thought from a true one.

It will ask them to adapt.To meet change with curiosity instead of fear.

It will ask them to stay human.To care, collaborate and find meaning in an age of intelligent machines.

MADE BY REAL PARENTS
Built for our own children. Shared with yours.

Learning of Life is a family learning system created by parents who want their children to stay curious, capable and deeply human in a changing world.

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YOUR FIRST FAMILY MISSION

Ask one question
nobody knows the answer to.

  1. Choose something you noticed today.
  2. Everyone guesses before searching.
  3. Discover the answer together.
No grades. No perfect answer. Just curiosity.

The adventure starts here

Grow a mind that never stops exploring.

Start with one question, one song and one real-world adventure. Learning of Life is not another subject—it is a promise to keep growing together.

We’re ready to begin ↑