To write on this elusive word ‘care’, where do I begin? ‘Care’ sometimes sounds like a reproach, at other times an admonition. Better show care next time, take care, don’t you see that I care, and so on. Mostly we are put on the defensive. We are als…
Can I be the Fire and not the Frying Pan? Read Post »
Welcome back, dear reader, to a long-awaited issue of the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools. After the COVID interregnum followed by our special issue, No. 25, we are returning to our customary collection of contributions by teachers and educators from the global family of Krishnamurti schools. The jo…
This is a journal on education that is brought out annually. It is an anthology of writings by educators, teachers and thinkers exploring a new vision of education in its many dimensions—philosophy, psychology, classroom experience, curriculum, nature and environment, and contemporary issues. It lays special emphasis on J Krishnamurti’s principles of education.
This is a journal on education that is brought out annually. It is an anthology of writings by educators, teachers and thinkers exploring a new vision of education in its many dimensions—philosophy, psychology, classroom experience, curriculum, nature and environment, and contemporary issues. It lays special emphasis on J Krishnamurti’s principles of education.
To Take the Arduous Path Read Post »
Krishnamurti questioned the schools constantly about why they were producing mice instead of lions and gazelles.
True to its eclectic character, this fifteenth issue of the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools has a collection of articles on diverse subjects and topics.
We live our lives (“of quiet desperation”, as Thoreau put it) in the light of opposites – body and soul, violence and non-violence, truth and falsehood, sacred and profane, this world and the next, and so on.
The two-volume text entitled ‘Prehistory for Indian Schools’² relates the story of the origins of man as he came down from the trees, from his huntergatherer days down to his role as a shepherd and, finally, giving an account of the beginnings of agriculture which in turn helped man to move from a simple to a complex society.
Learning About the Beginnings of Life: Reflections of New Writings Read Post »
There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look’d upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day …Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
In recent conversations with friends where we were trying to understand each other as well as to enquire into deep questions of life, a frequent impediment would be the different meanings or connotations we ascribe to the words we use.
This Matter of Intellectual Understanding Read Post »
“Keats complained that Newton had destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by explaining it.
Review of “Unweaving the Rainbow”, Richard Dawkins Read Post »
Resurgence is a magazine published every two months from Cornwall, U.K.
Review of “Resurgence”, Edited by Satish Kumar Read Post »
Is history only a study of what happened’ and when, and what happened next?
A New Journal Prism: A Learning journal is a publication of Prism Communication, a Paris-based language training association, edited by Richard Laubly and Helen Schall, 151, Rue du Fauborg- Poissonniere, 75009 Paris.
Review of “Prism: A Learning Journal”, Edited by Richard Laubly and Helen Schall Read Post »
Stephen Jay Gould is one of the most popular writers on science today.
Review of “Life’s Grandeur”, Stephen Jay Gould Read Post »
The attempt to understand Krishnamurti takes us far and wide in the realm of 20th Century thought.
Aldous Huxley and Krishnamurti Read Post »
