If you think education is expensive, try ignorance

Derek Bok

SOHK
Books & Music

We are passionate about experience and the education (life lessons) one receives from real life experiences (the School of Hard Knocks). Our authors, educators and contributors will inspire you, expand your knowledge, and help you develop the life skills needed to support success.

Our publications provide comprehensive, real life, quality information and curriculum materials written from a time proven perspective. Now more than ever, everyone needs a strong foundation in both life, academics and character.

Our goal is to assist with entrepreneurship endeavors, homeschooling families, and faith based organizations, who are trying to encourage ethics and values in the hearts of their students, supporters and congregants.  

Real-Life University (The School of Hard Knocks) is pulling together a trusted resource of materials, educators and entrepreneurs who can provide traditional approaches to proven success.

We are looking for those who have a a story to tell. The School of Hard Knock is an independent boutique publisher who specializes in weaving stories into legacies. Stories of compassion, diversity, triumph, courage, and survival that can connect the disconnected, encourage the disheartened, defend our faith and freedoms, and foster greater humanity in a world that has forgotten it’s way.

Come see what we have to offer.

Life Lessons
School of Hard Knocks

Lecturer and instructor for the Real-Life University,  Mr. Tom Fairbanks shares some of his insights learned attending the School of Hard Knocks...where the rubber really meets the road. It is in life's classroom that lessons are truly learned and indelibly imprinted, shaping one's character.

Tom loves people and thrives in seeing them succeed, provided their success is through honoring the Principles of Good Business. His humor and real-life experiences make him highly effective in teaching success strategies that have a long-lasting effect. When those key principles are not followed, people suffer. Rewards seldom have a lasting satisfaction when the principles of good business are violated. His insights will help everyone navigate the coming storms.

He's the author of five books: In Search of the Elusive “IT”, Navigating the Storms, American Crossroad of Trust, Real Estate and the Mortgage System Updated, and A Tale of Two Nations. Tom has also written many articles, Op Eds and legal briefs.

His contrarian opinions strike a harmonious chord in all who openly hear him speak or read his works. He's knowledgeable and witty and very thought-provoking!

RMH

News &
Views

The School of Hard Knocks (also referred to as the University of Life or University of Hard Knocks) is an idiomatic phrase meaning the (sometimes painful) education one gets from life's usually negative experiences, often contrasted with formal education.

It is a phrase which is most typically used by a person to claim a level of wisdom imparted by life experience, which should be considered at least equal in merit to academic knowledge. It is a response that may be given when one is asked about his or her education, particularly if they do not have an extensive formal education but rather life experiences that should be valued instead. It may also be used facetiously, to suggest that formal education is not of practical value compared with "street" experience.

News & Views from the School of Hard Knocks is a collection of whit, humor and commentary garnered from real life experience. Comments and suggestions are always welcome.