The Alphabet of Literature
I don’t want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.
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My Introduction to J Krishnamurti’s Teachings
I did not know J Krishnamurti personally and had only one occasion to see and hear him, but this talk is very vivid in my memory.
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Dynamics of a Grand Finale: The End-of-Term Event at Brockwood Park
No one remembers why they called it the ‘Concert’.
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Inner Work: A Way to Create Emotional Well-being
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
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Not Different in Kind: Exploration into the Teacher-Student Relationship
This article is a rumination on what happens in us teachers when we ‘teach’ another.
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Vision and Practice: Exploring Reward and Punishment in Education
In late 2011 Oak Grove School facilitated a series of one-hour dialogues focused on an exploration of punishment and reward in educational practice.
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A Time to Reckon: Theme Meetings at School
I am the mother all right, but I worry when my child assumes that I am the parent!’ As parents and teachers we had come together at the annual theme meeting at The School (KFI) to discuss our role in a child’s life and a child’s role in ours.
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Theme Meetings: A Conversation Space for Educators and Parents
The right kind of education begins with the educator, who must understand himself and be free from established patterns of thought; for what he is, that he imparts.
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Educating to be a Part of not Apart from the Environment
We are academicians-cum-practitioners, one from the environmentalsciences and the other from the socialsciences, coming together as teachers withthe aim of re-envisioning an approach toenvironmental studies.
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Big Brother isn’t Watching You – and is not too sure what he is seeing
Recently, on a blackboard in a very public corridor used by students for good-natured but generally anonymous graffiti, something like the following had been neatly printed: SMILE WHEN YOU USE COMPUTERS IN THE COMPS LAB – YOU’RE UNDER CCTV.
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Communication: Studying a Krishnamurti Text
This article is the result of a study, by teachers and parents at Shibumi, of a letter from the book The Whole Movement of Life is Learning.
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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.