The Subject of Art
The love of beauty may express itself in a song, in a smile, or in silence; but most of us have no inclination to be silent.
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Composing a Culture in Music
The schools in India that derive their inspiration from the philosophy of Krishnamurti are different from the mainstream schools in many aspects.
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Prashanti’s Dilemma: Wisdom and Struggle in Students’ Voices
Ethic – a set of moral principles, esp. ones relating to or affirming a specified group, field or form of conduct: the puritan ethic was being replaced by the hedonist ethic.
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Awakening Empathy in Early Childhood
Young children experience conflict every day, generated by differences in age, size, physical abilities, language, race, ethnicity and culture, religion, family structure, socioeconomic class and gender: ‘No girls allowed!’Children wish to be treated fairly and they have problems with perceivedunfairness.
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What is Academic Rigour?
‘Academics’ is a top priority in all educational institutions, for obvious reasons.
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The Next Step
We are probably all familiar with Krishnamurti’s statement, ‘The first step is the last step’, but what preoccupies teachers on a daily basisis how they will approach a particular student; how they will make theirteaching ‘not boring’; and whether they have the tools for the job, both interms of knowledge and psychological readiness.
Editorial
Krishnamurti questioned the schools constantly about why they were producing mice instead of lions and gazelles.
Education
Question: What kind of education should my child have, in order to face this chaotic world?
Teaching at University: Challenges and Concerns
Is authentic learning possible in the heady atmosphere of an elite university, or is the race for degrees and prestigious jobs too overwhelming?
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From the Mind’s Attic
It is as though you have an eye That sees all forms But does not see itself.
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The Calendar of Nature: Connecting Children with Nature through the Observation of Trees
The natural world is changing so rapidly that entire landscapes are being unrecognizably altered within a few decades.
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An Experiment in Self-Observation
One of the vexing questions in Krishnamurti’s teachings is how to become aware of the contents of our consciousness.
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Space and Spirit
Let me start with some basic questions that we need to ask ourselves: Why do most of our modern living and work environments make us exhausted and dispirited?
On the Threshold of Touch
Behaviour exposes the content of your consciousness.- J KrishnamurtiAs a long time environmental educator I’ve been exploring imitation, song, touch and body-in-nature as channels of empathy between humans, and also between human and non-humans.
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Learning in Friendship and Leisure
This is a description of a special month-long coming together of a few students and staff from Brockwood Park, UK, in India.
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Child as a Kite
We face many dilemmas in life. Whether to treat a child as a child or to consider the child as a future adult is among the most contentious issues that confront many of us.
Self and Society: An Approach to Teaching Social Studies
We are talking about … schools cultivating in the young that most ‘subversive’ intellectual instrument—the anthropological perspective.
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On Retreats
From ancient times to the present, seekers of truth have felt the call to dwell in mountain silences, to live in the hush and shadows of the forests or even to go to the deserts where nature is shorn of all excess, to get away from the throng and maddening crowd, and discover an invincible peace.
Close Encounters of a Natural Kind: Nature-based Curriculum from Intent to Action
In my childhood, nature had an amorphous, seraphic form.
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Mushtifund School, Goa: The Story of How a Mainstream Traditional School Experimented with Change
The purpose of writing this article is not to project any story of achievement.
Project-based Learning
Last November, Oak Grove School welcomed to its beautiful campus both current and prospective families for an All School Showcase and Open House.
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Singular and Plural: Understanding the Individual and the Group
I am going to begin with a simple grammar lesson in English, which is approximately at the level of class 2, although we might come upon it at earlier or later stages of our education.
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An Invitation to Look Inward
Krishnamurti felt quite strongly that one of the major functions of education is to nurture the capacity to look inward.
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Our Inner Landscape
Over the centuries, the theories we have devised have gradually changed our image of ourselves, and in so doing they have subtly altered the contents of consciousness.
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Teachers’ Fears: Some Scenarios
Teachers are human beings too. And being human, they share in the fears that human beings live with.
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Being and Becoming: Some Thoughts on Adolescence and Fear
Adolescence is marked in every culture by what anthropologists have called ‘rites of passage’ involving the social recognition of entry into puberty, usually through a formal ritual or ceremony.
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Children’s Fears
Suppose you were to ask a young child, 13 years old, to write down her answer to the question: what are you afraid of?
Fear: An Introduction to the Section
When the editors’ team met in July 2010 to discuss the content of the new edition the discussion turned to the number of suicides by young people reported daily in newspapers.
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Anxiety, Openness and Freedom
Do animals feel fear? On the face of it, this seems to be an absurd question, for of course, animals do feel fear.
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