Issue 18 - January 2014
- Written by J. Krishnamurti
In one of the past letters we said that total responsibility is love.
- Written by Kamala Mukunda
A year ago, in November 2012, the Journal editorial team was sitting around in Ahalyaji's room, wrapping things up for the seventeenth issue.
- Written by Rajesh Dalal
How does one write about someone who, to begin with, was a total stranger and who, in less than a month, became more than a mother to you, and remained so, all her life?
- Written by C Seshadri
Ahalya Chari was Principal of the Regional College of Education (now called Regional Institute of Education, Mysore, RIEM) in its early years when I joined the institution as a lecturer.
- Written by Deepti Mehrotra
Memories of Ahalya Di remain fresh, crisp. Just a few days before she passed away, I spent a precious week with her.
- Written by Andy Gilman
The importance of self-knowledge is mentioned in many school mission statements, and this is not surprising.
- Written by D Anantha Jyothi
In the literature class we were studying Lord of the Flies—a novel about a group of pre-adolescent school boys who crash land on a lonely island and fend for themselves in the absence of any adults.
- Written by Azlan Smith
In the summer before I started teaching, I sought out one of my own childhood teachers and asked, 'What is teaching? How do I support children in learning? What is it that I am trying to do?'
- Written by Gary Primrose
Environmental education is an ideal forum to put into practice some of the educational insights of Eleanor Duckworth.
- Written by V Santharam
What happened to all the children? I did not find anyone on my way here,' enquired my guest, who was visiting Rishi Valley after a gap of several years.
- Written by Amanda Wood
In the course of our lives, we seem to know things in two, rather different ways.
- Written by Nagini Prasad
'What do you think dialogue is all about?'
- Written by Meredy Beson Rice
I have always loved literature, largely because of the sentiments expressed in Dickinson's poem.
- Written by Thejaswi Shivanand
'Where are we going for excursions this year?' is invariably one of the early questions we face as the children return to begin a new year at Centre For Learning.
- Written by O R Rao
Two birds, inseparable companions, cling to the self-same tree. Of these, one eats the sweet fruit and the other looks on without eating.
- Written by Valentin Gerlier
When teaching academic philosophy, one never ceases to be amazed at how little a subject once termed 'the love of wisdom' has to do with 'wisdom', let alone 'love'.
- Written by Alok Mathur
We wake at dawn to the trilling calls of unfamiliar birds, go for a walk amidst the tea-bushes stretching row upon row on the steep slopes, bordered on the higher ridges by dense shola forests—an entirely new landscape!
- Written by Rajani Arjun Shankar
'Why do we need to learn a dead language?' 'Where shall we ever use it?' 'Is Sanskrit relevant to today's world?'
- Written by Arvind Ranganathan
After the middle school MAG (Mixed Age Group) Day at The School- KFI, I spoke with my colleague Akhila Seshadri about what went into the production of a pageant presented by students of her class on that occasion.
- Written by Steve Smith
In this edited extract we find Krishnamurti opening up one of his favourite topics: authority. At the same time, the topic itself is linked to another: the awakening of intelligence.