Review of “Resurgence”, Edited by Satish Kumar
Resurgence is a magazine published every two months from Cornwall, U.K.
Issue 3
Review of “Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody For the Last 13,000 Years”, Jared Diamond
Is history only a study of what happened’ and when, and what happened next?
World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity (Courtesy: Union of Concerned Scientists, MA, USA)
Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course.
For an Earth-Centred Curriculum (Based on deliberations at a Workshop on Bio-diversity)
(Based on deliberations at a Workshop on Bio-diversity)
The Language of Nature
To meet the challenge of the twenty-first century we need to buildeducation on the foundation of eco-literacy.
Innovations in Education – EKLAVYA: A Report
The author has known Eklavya for many years through his parents and teachers, and through Eklavya’s children’s magazine ‘Chakmak’.
The Post-School Programme
The question asked most often by visitors to the Centre For Learning is, ‘…but how do your children manage in the Real World outside, when they leave this school?’ There was a time when this question would perplex me – isn’t CFL in the real world just as everything else?! But over the last few years, I have begun to think more about this issue, and I can see that there is a need to answer such a question in depth and with seriousness.
Learning to be a Teacher: Impressions of the Teachers’ Conference – 1998
Krishnamurti has often spoken about all our schools being one.
On Redefining Education
It seems that more and more governments today, democratic ones at least, are claiming to have education at the top of their priority lists.
Science and Insight
The greatest challenge facing a science teacher (I have been one for more than a decade now) is this whole matter of the student’s intuition.
Reflections on the Nature of Insight
I would like to begin by thanking David Moody for writing his interesting article, thus giving me an opportunity to note down some of my thoughts on the nature of insight.
Demystifying Insight
The following three pieces have been received in response to David Moody’s article: ‘The Insight Curriculum’, which appearedin Volume 2 of the journa1, July 1998.
From Local Studies Towards a Global Outlook – A New Geography for 12-year-Olds
Geography began with the realization that there was another side to the mountain and other people across the sea.
Creating the Attention Classroom
As a teacher who has spent over ten years teaching senior school students in those tumultuous years when they are growing up, facing the pressures of a performance-dominated society, I have time and again returned to the question of the place of the larger vision of education – of this whole concern with the art of living correctly – in my class.
Any Takers for the Open Library?
At Centre For Learning, we have an open library. Open, available, accessible, friendly and welcoming to the users.
A Treasure House of Stories
There is a Sufi story told of how a poor farmer had journeyed to Delhi to beg for some financial help from the great Sufi Saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia.
Teaching is Not Just a Profession
A few years ago I attended some major teacher conferences and came away with a deep sense of unease.
Teaching is Not Just a Profession
Having been a professional in the manufacturing industry for some years, I have observed that a professional is liked by those who have gone beyond the profession and developed a deeper relationship with all around.
A Journey into Education: An interview – Issue 3
Sreedhar (S): Rajesh, for over two decades, you have been associated with tlie schools Krishnamurti founded in India.
The Middle Ground
This a reflection on the attempt we are making at Brockwood to put into practice the educational intentions of Krishnamurti.
Concept and Awareness: Two Approaches to Truth
One of the persistent and nagging concerns of the Krishnamurti schools seems to be that of ‘locating the place of academics in the total vision of education’ .
Education and Indian Nationalism
The British Concept of IndiaThe spirit of nationalism was hovering in the Indian air when J.
Live not by intellect alone
Live not by intellect alone; for that way leads to perversion, the mechanization of life.