# Journal of the Krishnamurti Schools


## Posts

- [Inwoods: The Children's Space](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/inwoods-the-childrens-space/): In the autumn of 1995 three families at BrockwoodPark School were discussing the possibility of providing some kindof alternative education for their children and started searching for a place where this could happen.
- [A Learning Ground](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/a-learning-ground/): For seven very inspiring enriching years, I have had the opportunity of living and teaching at Rajghat, on the banks of the Ganga.
- [Dancing with Shadows: Graduation Address, 1997](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/dancing-with-shadows-graduation-address-1997/): Welcome to the 1997 Oak Grove School Graduation Ceremonies.
- [A Teacher's Journey](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/a-teachers-journey/): As I reflect upon my plunge into teaching in a school more than a decade ago, I really marvel at how fast time has flown.
- [Travels from Schools](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/travels-from-schools/): I vividly remember the first school trip in 1983 with a group of standard 9 students at The Valley School.
- [On Culture Classes](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/on-culture-classes/): Culture classes have become an integral part of the curriculum at most K schools, yet their scope and purpose remain obscure.
- [Learning Through Dialogue](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/learning-through-dialogue/): Krishnamurti has emphasised the need for students and teachers to learn about themselves while they are teaching and learning about the world around them, through the planned curriculum and activities of the school.
- [The Insight Curriculum](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/the-insight-curriculum/): What is the relationship, if any, between the teachings of Krishnamurti, and the findings of contemporary research in educational psychology?
- [Knowing and Being - The Two Aspects of Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/knowing-and-being-the-two-aspects-of-education/): 'We teach what we know, but educate what we are'
- [Comparison and Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/comparison-and-education/): At the outset these two words would to appear to have little in common.
- [This Question of Consciousness](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/this-question-of-consciousness/): It is strange, indeed, that even in the context, of the Krishnamurti schools, we hesitate to talk about (much less probe into), the very central question of consciousness.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/editorial-02/): We all know that visitors to our schools, professional or otherwise, go back with a feeling that here is an educational environment that is friendly, warm, inviting; that this is basically a happy community of teachers and students who go about their activities joyously and yet seriously. This is also one reason why parents are […]
- [A Quiet Mind](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/a-quiet-mind/): To understand anything, any human or scientific problem, what is important, what is essential?
- [Review of "A History of Civilizations", Fernand Braudel](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/review-of-a-history-of-civilizations-fernand-braudel/): On one who has had but a passing acquaintance with history, this book had a profound and deep impact. First one learned about the author who was considered ‘a prince among historians’. He belonged to a group of French scholars called Annales, School of Historians. In their quest for ‘total history’, this school included geography, […]
- [Review of "A History of Civilizations", Fernand Braudel](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/review-of-a-history-of-civilizations-fernand-braudel-2/): Ever since History emerged as a major and independent field of study during the time of the 18th Century European Enlightenment - the time of Voltaire, Gibbon, Rousseau and the French Encyclopaedists - the study of history has been subject to pulls in two different directions.
- [Review of "Classic Myths to Read Aloud", William F. Russel](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/review-of-classic-myths-to-read-aloud-william-f-russel/): Good storytellers can demand your attention by showing you new ways of looking at an old story.
- [Review of "Sophie's World: Jostein Gaarder", Translated from the Norwegian by Paulette Millen](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/review-of-sophies-world-jostein-gaarder-translated-from-the-norwegian-by-paulette-millen/): Sophie's World is a novel about the History of Philosophy.
- [Review of "Child Art with Everyday Materials: Tarit Bhattacharjee", Written by Kanchana Arni and Gita Wolf](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/review-of-child-art-with-everyday-materials-tarit-bhattacharjee-written-by-kanchana-arni-and-gita-wolf/): This is a delightful book from one of our own teachers who has a distinctive approach to the teaching of art to children.
- [Aldous Huxley and Krishnamurti](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/aldous-huxley-and-krishnamurti/): The attempt to understand Krishnamurti takes us far and wide in the realm of 20th Century thought.
- [Birth of a School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/birth-of-a-school/): The Pune Centre of the Krishnamurti Foundation saw the birth of Sahyadri School in September 1995.
- [School and Community - The Story of Satellite Schools](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/school-and-community-the-story-of-satellite-schools/): 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.
- [Education and the Environmental Issue](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/education-and-the-environmental-issue/): Why focus on the environmental crisis? It seems clear that the activities of humankind are leading, in an irrational way, to self-destruction.
- [Ecological Perception](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/ecological-perception/): In the days before scientific thinking took hold in the West the earth was seen as a vast living being worthy of deep respect and reverence.
- [Dissection Experiments at School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/dissection-experiments-at-school/): In this paper we explore the possibility of doing away with the current practice of animal dissection in schools, which as per the current norms is an integral part of the Biology curriculum for most examination boards.
- [A Tree Through the Year](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/a-tree-through-the-year/): The School at Madras is located in a very quiet, verdant part of the city in the grounds of the Theosophical Society.
- [Reflections on Teaching Mathematics](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/reflections-on-teaching-mathematics/): Those of us who love mathematics and teach it, see that it is intrinsically beautiful.
- [Fostering Mathematical Intelligence](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/fostering-mathematical-intelligence/): Mathematics, its teaching/learning has evoked wide discussion ever so often.
- [Notes on the Teaching of Social Studies](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/notes-on-the-teaching-of-social-studies/): I began teaching part of the prescribed ICSE syllabus for history and culture in Standard VIII in 1983.
- [An Experiential Approach to Language Learning](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/an-experiential-approach-to-language-learning/): The language experience approach is a very effective method for getting students in the beginning grades to read and write meaningfully.
- [Observation, Leisure and Learning](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/observation-leisure-and-learning/): During our annual curriculum meetings in April '96, two crucial questions were raised.
- [A True Art of Learning: Dialogue in Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/a-true-art-of-learning-dialogue-in-education/): The history of intellectual and religious inquiry is replete with great minds and great schools.
- ['What Games Do You Play?'](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/what-games-do-you-play/): The setting for this paper is RishiValley School, a co-educational school with about 350 children between the ages of 8 and 18.
- [On Being a House Parent](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/on-being-a-house-parent/): A year after I joined the Rishi Valley School I was asked to be a 'house parent' to 16 boys of ages 10 to 13.
- [On Relationship](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/on-relationship/): What is right relationship between a teacher and student, or between a teacher and a colleague?
- [Skotmos in School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/skotmos-in-school/): We recognize the growing complexity of the challenges facing schools today and we seek answers in educational reform and innovation.
- [Krishnamurti and the Scientific Mind](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/krishnamurti-and-the-scientific-mind/): In teaching science, it is more important to help students to under-stand the scientific approach to life and develop a scientific temper than it is to impart scientific knowledge or train them in specific scientific techniques.
- [The Three Great Arts of Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/the-three-great-arts-of-education/): Krishnamurti pointed out that there are three great arts in education.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/editorial-01/): As we are all aware J. Krishnamurti was not only a great seer but a wise educator, perhaps the most radical that this century has produced.
- [Our true vocations](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/our-true-vocations/): Is there any other way of living in which you and I can function in our true vocation?
- [Competition and its Educational Consequences: Is There an Alternative?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/competition-and-its-educational-consequences-is-there-an-alternative/): Competition as a driving principle of life seems to have become all-pervasive, and it appears to extend into every nook and cranny of social activity: sports, music, dance (and all the performing arts), business, research, academia in general.
- [Erik Erikson's Theory of Development: A Teacher's Observations](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/erik-eriksons-theory-of-development-a-teachers-observations/): Erik Erikson was a psychologist who did most of his work in the post-Freudian era, in the 1930s to the 1950s.
- [This Matter of Intellectual Understanding](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/this-matter-of-intellectual-understanding/): 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.
- [On Discovery: A response](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/on-discovery-a-response/): One of Amir Huda's central points is that, throughout our education, we have become used to learning from teachers in a step by step, accumulative process, instead of discovering things on our own.
- [Reinventing the Wheel?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/reinventing-the-wheel/): I feel that learning in general, including in schools, is the incremental acquisition of knowledge or information in time, which by its very nature may thwart the process of discovery, by establishing in the mind a framework or paradigm of how to deal with the unknown.
- [The Frog Prince: Embracing the Negative in Our Selves](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/the-frog-prince-embracing-the-negative-in-our-selves/): I start with Krishnamurti's statement: ...reality cannot come into being...without self-knowledge, self-knowledge which is discovered from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship, so that all illusion is stripped away, so that the ego does not build fantasies, escapes.
- [What is a True Community?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/what-is-a-true-community/): It's a winter afternoon, and the sun shines red through the trees as I walk through the woods.
- [Speaking of God](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/speaking-of-god/): In every human being there is the quest for the unknown, and in every consciousness, whether young or old, whether traditional or modern, there is a notion of God.
- [An Approach to Teaching Religion](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/an-approach-to-teaching-religion/): In the 1950s and '60s, the secular, objective, 'scientific' study of religion broke away from the traditional discipline of religion (i.e., apologetics for a particular dominant religion).
- [Where Does Responsibility Lie?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/where-does-responsibility-lie/): We live our lives in compartments. The big one for this, the smaller one for that, and the mid-sized one for something else.
- [Global Violence and Individual Responsibility](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/global-violence-and-individual-responsibility/): The spectacular events of terrorism that took place in the United States a few months ago have focussed the attention of the whole world on the issue of global violence.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/editorial-06/): This journal is now six years and six issues old. Started as an in-house publication of the Krishnamurti schools, it has begun to reach out to a wider readership: to parents, teachers, educational administrators and other individuals or institutions interested in the educational issues of our times.
- [What is meditation?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/what-is-meditation/): How can the mind know if it has found what it calls the ultimate, the immeasurable, the nameless, the most sublime?
- [Review of "Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls", Mary Pipher (Ph D)](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/review-of-reviving-ophelia-saving-the-selves-of-adolescent-girls-mary-pipher-ph-d/): It is rarely that one comes across a book about young girls that is not merely a saga of their times, of the pain and struggles in their lives, but also takes a proactive approach to actually doing what the title suggests – Reviving Ophelia.
- [Review of "A Series on Children's Development", Dr. Joseph Chilton Pearce](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/review-of-a-series-on-childrens-development-dr-joseph-chilton-pearce/): This is a set of six videos on child development, each lasting from one to one and a half hours, anchored by Dr.
- [For all you Maths Teachers out There!: On the Mathematics Teachers' Conference at Rishi Valley](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/for-all-you-maths-teachers-out-there-on-the-mathematics-teachers-conference-at-rishi-valley/): I am sure all you mathematics teachers out there have had the following experience.
- [Stepping into Kindergarten](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/stepping-into-kindergarten/): I undertook training in Kindergarten education at the Children’s Garden School in Chennai in 1978.
- [Learning through Birds](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/learning-through-birds/): There was a slight movement on the branch above us, well over fifty feet high.
- [Working with the People of Kaigal Valley: Beginnings of a Conservation Project](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/working-with-the-people-of-kaigal-valley-beginnings-of-a-conservation-project/): The Kaigal Valley landThe Krishnamurti Foundation India has had in its care about 200 acres of beautiful forest land at Kaigal Valley near the town of Palamner since 1984.
- ["A Meandering, Dancing, River of Learning": Excerpts from a Teacher's Diary](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/a-meandering-dancing-river-of-learning-excerpts-from-a-teachers-diary/): Going back through my diary and taking out excerpts for the Journal has been a rewarding experience for me.
- [Teaching and Learning Hindi as a 'Second' Language: Exploring a new Terrain](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/teaching-and-learning-hindi-as-a-second-language-exploring-a-new-terrain/): A few years ago I made a transition from teaching French as a foreign language to adults to making materials for teaching Hindi as a second language to young school goers in South India.
- [The Human Perspective in Teaching Geography](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/the-human-perspective-in-teaching-geography/): Images of GeographyGeography – the very name conjures up images of misty mountains, bubbling brooks, rapidly flowing rills, deep gorges, endless undulating plains, and majestic rivers, so slow-flowing that they almost seem indolent, yet with a hidden power that man has sought to harness for aeons.
- [The Unbearable Ennui of being Sherlock Holmes: A Meditation in Three Movements](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/the-unbearable-ennui-of-being-sherlock-holmes-a-meditation-in-three-movements/): Sherlock Holmes, as is well known, was a person who was subject to violent fluctuations of mood.
- [Computers, Internet and Schools: Are we connected to reality?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/computers-internet-and-schools-are-we-connected-to-reality/): Information technology is changing and morphing so dramatically – Gordon Moore’s now-famous law projects the doubling of computer power every 18 months – that its implications for education can hardly be viewed from any fixed point.
- [Does Information Technology Herald a Learning Revolution?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/does-information-technology-herald-a-learning-revolution/): There has been a great deal of discussion regarding the use of computers and Internet in school education, more specifically in the area of teaching/ learning processes.
- [Helping students understand the place of studying Computer Science](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/helping-students-understand-the-place-of-studying-computer-science/): Living and teaching in a school situated in the hub of the IT revolution, the impact of computers on a child’s psyche is not hard to observe.
- [Challenges for the Teacher in the Information Technology Era](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/issue-5-challenges-for-the-teacher-in-the-information-technology-era/): For me, the central questions raised by the advent of computers in education are:
- [Points of View: Computers in School Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/points-of-view-computers-in-school-education/): The information revolution is sweeping the world. Computer networks capable of storing, processing and transmitting vast amounts of data are webbing their way into the lives of people the world over.
- [A Course in Contemporary Art](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/a-course-in-contemporary-art/): Last year Brockwood Park School initiated a new art class to explore the expressions of Western contemporary art, focusing on the phenomenon of ‘Conceptual Art’.
- [Studying Culture at Brockwood](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/studying-culture-at-brockwood/): Introduction In this piece I will discuss an Anthropology module we did at Brockwood, as part of a new class called the ‘Main Lesson’.
- [In the Beginning: The First Week of a New School Year](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/in-the-beginning-the-first-week-of-a-new-school-year/): Like the first page of a novel, the first scene of a play, or the first chords of a piece of music, the first week of a new school year must communicate a lot.
- [From Brockwood Park School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/from-brockwood-park-school/): Brockwood Park School in England, founded by Krishnamurti in 1969, is an international residential school that brings together around 60 students from around 20 countries, aged between 14 and 20.
- [The Ground beneath our Feet](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/the-ground-beneath-our-feet/): To a thinking person, it is quite clear that human beings have collectively contributed more problems to the earth than any other species.
- [On Nurturing a Non-verbal Movement of the Mind](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/on-nurturing-a-non-verbal-movement-of-the-mind/): In educating children, apart from developing their physical, intellectual and aesthetic capacities, are we not concerned with a non-verbal movement of the mind, with a heightened quality of attention, of observation and listening?
- [Will you take the Risk?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/will-you-take-the-risk/): ‘Hey! I thought you said you had vertigo!?’ ‘Yeah...
- [A New Look at Critical Thinking](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/a-new-look-at-critical-thinking/): One of the units of my 10th grade English class at Oak Grove School is ‘critical thinking.’ Traditionally, in U.S.
- [The Open Classroom](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/the-open-classroom/): Working with the intentions of the Krishnamurti schools takes us deep into the question, ‘What is learning?’ We can explore this better when we do not divide or compartmentalize learning into academic and non-academic, and separate this from day-to-day living. As teachers, the question challenges our very deep conditioning about knowledge and its place in […]
- [The Kindergarten Teacher](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/the-kindergarten-teacher/): The work of the Kindergarten teacher involves many dimensions of understanding.
- [Towards a Consciousness Curriculum](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/towards-a-consciousness-curriculum/): Consciousness is the primary datum of existence, of human existence, and perhaps of all existence.
- [The Power of Truth](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/the-power-of-truth/): I wonder what the future holds for us in the Krishnamurti schools.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/editorial-05/): There is a churning in the world of education. Teachers, parents, administrators and policy-makers are being driven to question anew: ‘What are we doing with our children?’ ‘What values, dispositions and concerns are we creating in them?’ ‘What is the quality of relationships with peers and others that our children are imbibing?’ ‘What will be their relationship with the society and environment they are part of?’ ‘Will future generations be able to find wholesome responses to the many complex challenges of their times?’ These questions are not speculative or academic, but stem from sensitive observation of everyday realities, as much in the classroom as in the society around us.
- [Freedom is to be a light to oneself](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5/freedom-is-to-be-a-light-to-oneself/): High in the mountains there were hardly any birds; there were some crows, there were deer and an occasional bear.
- [Review of "Unweaving the Rainbow", Richard Dawkins](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/review-of-unweaving-the-rainbow-richard-dawkins/): “Keats complained that Newton had destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by explaining it.
- [Introducing Books by Krishnamurti on life and learning](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/introducing-books-by-krishnamurti-on-life-and-learning/): UNDERSTANDING OURSELVES  KRISHNAMURTI FOUNDATION TRUST, BROCKWOOD PARK, BRAMDEAN, HAMPSHIRE SO24 OLQ, ENGLAND, 1999, £ 9 – 14 US $.
- [The Greening of the Mindscape](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/issue-4-the-greening-of-the-mindscape/): The story is told about a kind-hearted amateur who raised butterflies as a hobby.
- [Learning in Mixed Age Groups: How We Made the Transition](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/learning-in-mixed-age-groups-how-we-made-the-transition/): A school, like any other institution, is a complex amalgam of intentions, processes, practices and of course, people.
- [Innovations in Education: Vidyodaya - an attempt to walk a different path](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/innovations-in-education-vidyodaya-an-attempt-to-walk-a-different-path/): ‘You are supposed to be teachers and you don’t send your children to school?!’ The local community was aghast.
- [Issues in growing up - The need for sex education in schools](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/issues-in-growing-up-the-need-for-sex-education-in-schools/): There are many issues related to the problems of growing up that we face in school.
- [Creating an Atmosphere in School: For 'teachers-who-are-learners'](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/creating-an-atmosphere-in-school-for-teachers-who-are-learners/): One of the features of schools is that teachers are expected to do what they are allocated.
- [Questioning Ourselves: Reflections on a Teachers' Gathering](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/questioning-ourselves-reflections-on-a-teachers-gathering/): The Annual Teachers’ Conference held at The Valley School,  Bangalore between 15 and 17 Oct, 1999, was an occasion for the coming together of teachers from the various KFI centres.
- [Baptism of a Boy Miss!](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/baptism-of-a-boy-miss/): The buildings were the same. So were some of the faces.
- [From Brockwood Park and Yewfield: A new course on environmental philosophy and ecological practice](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/from-brockwood-park-and-yewfield-a-new-course-on-environmental-philosophy-and-ecological-practice/): Find your place on earth, dig in, and take your responsibilities from there.
- [Studies of Biodiversity on Campus](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/studies-of-biodiversity-on-campus/): Biologists have identified India as one of the top twelve megadiversity countries of the world.
- [Nature Schools](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/nature-schools/): All across Scandinavia small children are running wild! From Lapland to Jutland, you will see flocks of youngsters chasing through meadows and woodland, with mud-spattered faces and small rucksacks on their backs.
- [A School in the Forest](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/a-school-in-the-forest/): Every year around 2000 people walk up the three kilometres of dirt road, in rain and sun, to visit the gardens at the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary.
- [On Ethics in Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/on-ethics-in-education/): The current climate in so-called mainstream education, both private and government controlled, indicates that it has reached a kind of impasse.
- [The Subject of History](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/the-subject-of-history/): How I teach history—daily, in my high school classroom—is a complex affair.
- [Krishnamurti and the Modern Mind](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/issue-4-krishnamurti-and-the-modern-mind/): Of the great Indian religious philosophers born in the nineteenth century, Krishnamurti was the youngest as well as the most radical.
- [A Space for Learning: An Architect's Vision](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/a-space-for-learning-an-architects-vision/): The question posed before me as an architect is, “Can architectural space influence the learning process in a positive way?” or, “Can architectural space contribute to the personal growth of a child with joy, freedom, compassion and awareness?” From my experience in designing and studying a number of educational institutions from primary schools to postgraduate research institutions, and from various postoccupational surveys, my answer to the above questions is a resounding “Yes!”
- [The Arts of Listening, Looking and Learning](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/the-arts-of-listening-looking-and-learning/): Excerpts from a talk at the National Conference of the National Center for Montessori Education, San Diego, California, March, 1999As a teacher, educator, and speaker, Krishnamurti had a strong prepossession to awaken in people the ability to learn, and live full, intelligent lives.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/editorial/): The ground around is covered with dry leaves, and above, the birds twitter and hop among the bare branches.
- [Art of working together](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/art-of-working-together/): Since education is the responsibility of the parents as well as of the teachers, we must learn the art of working together, and this is possible only when each one of us perceives what is true.
- [Review of "Resurgence", Edited by Satish Kumar](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/review-of-resurgence-edited-by-satish-kumar/): Resurgence is a magazine published every two months from Cornwall, U.K.
- [Review of "Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody For the Last 13,000 Years", Jared Diamond](https://journal.kfionline.org/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)](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/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)](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/learning-to-be-a-teacher-impressions-of-the-teachers-conference-1998/): Krishnamurti has often spoken about all our schools being one.
- [On Redefining Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/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.
- [As the Mystery Unfolds](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/as-the-mystery-unfolds/): Working with children on a project has been a most rewarding experience.
- [Science and Insight](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/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?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/teaching-is-not-just-a-profession-2/): 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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/a-journey-into-education-an-interview/): Sreedhar (S): Rajesh, for over two decades, you have been associated with tlie schools Krishnamurti founded in India.
- [The Middle Ground](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/education-and-indian-nationalism/): The British Concept of IndiaThe spirit of nationalism was hovering in the Indian air when J.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/issue-3-editorial/): The third volume of the Journal goes out to readers a few months earlier this time.
- [Live not by intellect alone](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3/live-not-by-intellect-alone/): Live not by intellect alone; for that way leads to perversion, the mechanization of life.
- [Review of "Prism: A Learning Journal", Edited by Richard Laubly and Helen Schall](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/review-of-prism-a-learning-journal-edited-by-richard-laubly-and-helen-schall/): 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 "Life's Grandeur", Stephen Jay Gould](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/review-of-lifes-grandeur-stephen-jay-gould/): Stephen Jay Gould is one of the most popular writers on science today.
- [Review of "The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and What Schools Should Teach", Howard Gardner](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/review-of-the-unschooled-mind-how-children-think-and-what-schools-should-teach-howard-gardner/): Have you recently talked with a three year old, and come away slightly dazed at the degree of sophistication in her conversation - the concepts she understands and applies so appropriately to each situation?
- [Media and Young Minds: The Role of Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/media-and-young-minds-the-role-of-education/): Living in a world filled with the by-products of human technological advances, one senses the tidal wave of globalization that sweeps across the planet, carrying with it hi-tech products, new lifestyles and a consumer culture to far corners of the globe.
- [On Boredom and Sense-stimulation](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/on-boredom-and-sense-stimulation/): Suppose you are sitting around at home one day feeling somewhat bored.
- [The Rhythm of a Different Day](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/the-rhythm-of-a-different-day/): At the edge of the rainforest inWynad, Kerala, some children are sleeping on the floor of a large room.
- [Understanding Taxonomy](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/understanding-taxonomy/): Teaching and learning of classification in Life Science can be very wearisome and dull if taught in the conventional way, using Greek and Latin terms that are found easily in the textbooks.
- [Ecology for 16 year olds](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/ecology-for-16-year-olds/): Environmental studies have become increasingly integral to modern day curricula.
- [Neuropsychological Issues in a Classroom](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/neuropsychological-issues-in-a-classroom/): We all agree that as educators our responsibility is not only to impart knowledge, but also to be concerned with the overall development of the child.
- [Creativity in Grammar Classes](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/creativity-in-grammar-classes/): In a modern Biology class a teacher no longer draws and labels a hypothetical flower on the blackboard expecting the children to learn it by heart.
- [And I thought I was teaching Chemistry!](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/and-i-thought-i-was-teaching-chemistry/): How would a teacher respond when asked, 'What do you teach when you teach science?'
- [Art Education at School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/art-education-at-school/): Two distinct, but equally crucial challenges coalesced to inspire the creation of the Valley school Art Village.
- [Tamarind Seeds and Little Children](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2/issue-2-tamarind-seeds-and-little-children/): All too often in our staff meetings, we have deliberated upon our concerns - how to help our children understand that there is more to playing a game than winning or losing, with the accompanying euphoria or disappointment.
- [Krishnamurti's Letters to His Schools: Introducing a New Edition](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/krishnamurtis-letters-to-his-school-introducing-a-new-edition/): It is a great privilege to be involved in editing Krishnamurti's works.
- [School Administration: For Humanness and Vitality](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/school-administration-for-humanness-and-vitality/): It is not bigotry to be certain we are right;  but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
- [Igniting Minds: With Science on Wheels](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/igniting-minds-with-science-on-wheels/): Like the wandering minstrel of yore, Agastya International Foundation's Mobile Laboratory (ML) trundles in and out of schools in villages of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
- [Confessions of  a Science Teacher](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/confessions-of-a-science-teacher/): I would like to share my concern for the teaching and future of my subject, as also to suggest the basis of the way that I would proceed, should I get the opportunity to teach again.
- [Building a Cathedral: An Approach to Teaching Poetry](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/building-a-cathedral-an-approach-to-teaching-peotry/): There is a parable of a passer by who encountered three workmen cutting stones on a vast building site.
- [A Feeling for Beauty: Dance in Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/a-feeling-for-beauty-dance-in-education/): Long before a child sees that the world is made up of books and classrooms he is aware that he can do the most amazing things with his hands and feet.
- [Teaching Peace](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/teaching-peace/): As you mellow, the urge to compromise hits oftener, but latecomers continue to annoy me.
- [Emotions and Learning](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/emotions-and-learning/): The Brain Sciences have made dramatic progress in the last two decades.
- [Exploring Fundamental Questions at School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/exploring-fundamental-question-at-school/): It's a sun drenched Wednesday morning and fifteen freshman and twelve sophomore high school students sit as one large group in a circle.
- [Responsibility to the Other](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/responsibility-to-the-order/): I have been asked to contribute to the Journal which is now marking the first decade of its existence, and I am happy to do so because of my involvement in the work of the Foundations, which, of course, can be seen at so many levels as part of the world of education.
- [Placing Krishnamurti in the Philosophy of Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/placing-krishnamurti-in-the-philosophy-of-education/): Scholarly research into the philosophy of education abounds with accounts of contributions of several educational and social leaders to the understanding and practice of education.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/editorial-issue-10/): It all started with a feeling that the legacy that Krishnamurti had left us in the form of his vision of education was something precious that had to be conserved, explored and shared.
- [What is the significance of history in the education of the young?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/what-is-the-significance-of-history-in-the-education-of-the-young/): Question: What is the significance of history in the education of the young?
- [Review of "Magical Parent, Magical Child: The Art of Joyful Parenting", Michael Mendizza and Chilton Pearce](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/review-of-magical-parent-magical-child-the-art-of-joyful-parenting-michael-mendizza-and-chilton-pearce/): Magical Parent, Magical Child, plays with many ways of getting its message across.
- [Review of "Social Implications of Schooling: Knowledge, Pedagogy and Consciousness", Avijit Pathak](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/review-of-social-implications-of-schooling-knowledge-pedagogy-and-consciousness-avijit-pathak/): This book is a significant contribution to the growing literature on education, particularly school education, and it is written by an Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
- [The Nature of Mathematics - an Unfolding Story](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/the-nature-of-mathematics-an-unfolding-story/): Prologue The average teacher or for that matter researcher of mathematics rarely bothers herself with the philosophy or epistemology of mathematics.
- [The Teachings: Pushing the Envelope](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/the-teachings-pushing-the-envelope/): Two things that are very important in the Krishnamurti movement are the ‘Sacred’ and the ‘Teachings’ (how to get to the sacred).
- [After School, What?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/after-school-what/): The Post School Programme, located at the Bangalore Education Centre of KFI, is an attempt to extend these concerns of the Krishnamurti Schools to high school graduates and other young adults.
- [Leaves from a Teacher's Journal](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/leaves-from-a-teachers-journal/): Teachers are busy people. Their work demands intense engagement with students, other adults, their subject, ways of communicating it, and much else.
- [Krishnamurti on the Timetable](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/krishnamurti-on-the-timetable/): At the time, Andy was on a collision course with staff and in danger of being asked to leave Brockwood.
- [Brockwood Park School: Staff Retreat](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/brockwood-park-school-staff-retreat/): Teachers of a school are colleagues in a special sense of the word.
- [A New Initiative - The Centre for Teacher Learning](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/a-new-initiative-the-centre-for-teacher-learning/): Krishnamurti, the quintessential teacher, offered deep insights and perspectives on the human condition and underlined the urgency of approaching the many problems of life with a new, awakened mind.
- [Yoga in the Classroom](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/yoga-in-the-classroom/): Class Six was a challenge to all of us who were teaching them: twenty-seven 10-year olds, all extremely energetic and scattered.
- [Silent Looking: Exploring Perception with J. Krishnamurti](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/silent-looking-exploring-perception-with-j-krishnamurti/): To discover anything you must look; and to look, your look must be silent.
- [Teaching History: Learning to Look into the Mirror](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/teaching-history-learning-to-look-into-the-mirror/): In this article I will focus on teaching history in a way that is inspired by the Teachings of Krishnamurti.
- [A Script for Self-Learning](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/a-script-for-self-learning/): Background of NachiketNachiket is one of the many educational centers of the Krishnamurti Foundation.
- [Curriculum for an Inquiring Mind](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/curriculum-for-an-inquiring-mind/): In our ongoing engagement with the daily business of teaching and more generally with education, we come up against the question–what are we doing with our children?
- [Physical Inquiry: The Body as  Means of Learning (Part Two)](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/physical-inquiry-the-body-as-means-of-learning-part-two/): As teachers in Krishnamurti Schools, we are concerned with enabling self-discovery and awareness.
- [Exploring the Potential of Physical Education as a Support for Learning (Part One)](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/exploring-the-potential-of-physical-education-as-a-support-for-learning-part-one/): Castellari’s reflections touch upon many of the ideas I myself have been working on.
- [Towards a Philosophy of Physical Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/towards-a-philosophy-of-physical-education/): For some years now I have been interested in the potential of physical education (PE) to support inquiry and learning.
- [What Makes a Teacher](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/what-makes-a-teacher/): The question is sometimes raised, why the Krishnamurti schools do not have greater purchase in the educational community and, with the exception of the schools of the Rural Education Programme at Rishi Valley, do not have wider applicability.
- [Alienation from the Wild](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/alienation-from-the-wild/): After a decade of involvement in nature education with individuals and groups from widely differing socio-cultural milieus, we have noticed that a profound alienation from the natural and the wild has taken place, in all human societies, for various reasons and to varying degrees.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/editorial-issue-9/): 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.
- [Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Students](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9/krishnamurti-in-dialogue-with-students/): 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.
- [Review of "Set of Primers on Mathematics", Shailesh Shirali](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/review-of-set-of-primers-on-mathematics-shailesh-shirali/): Do you love mathematics? Are you looking for suitable material that you can use to inspire your student of mathematics?
- [Review of "Curioser and Curioser", Neeraja Raghavan](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/review-of-curioser-and-curioser-neeraja-raghavan/): This is a charming fable written by a trained scientist and teacher, ‘for the child in everyone’ as the blurb says.
- [Review of "Krishnamurti for the Young - A Series of Three Books", Edited by Ahalya Chari](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/review-of-krishnamurti-for-the-young-a-series-of-three-books-edited-by-ahalya-chari/): These are the first three in a series of books designed to help the young to understand and deal with the world within themselves...
- [Reporting on the Middle School Child](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/reporting-on-the-middle-school-child/): The periodic task of writing end-of-term reports is like the visible ‘tip of an iceberg’ that comprises many layers and processes in school.
- [Reporting on the Junior School Child](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/reporting-on-the-junior-school-child/): In the child’s initial years at school, parents and teachers together are responsible for creating an environment which is conducive for learning to take place.
- [Reporting on the Kindergarten Child](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/reporting-on-the-kindergarten-child/): A report for a child in the kindergarten is a recording of the teacher’s observation of the child within a sensible framework.
- [Reporting On a Child at School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/reporting-on-a-child-at-school/): “The purpose, the aim and drive of these schools, is to equip the child with the most excellent technological proficiency so that the student may function with clarity and efficiency in the modern world.
- [Observing the Universe: The Classroom in the Sky](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/observing-the-universe-the-classroom-in-the-sky/): Astronomy is probably the oldest of the sciences. It developed independently in many cultures.
- [River Talk from the School in the Forest](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/river-talk-from-the-school-in-the-forest/): Cool water, spilling over black stone. I stand still, watching vapors rise from your skin.
- [Healing Our Civilization's Intellectual Schizophrenia](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/healing-our-civilizations-intellectual-schizophrenia/): Krishnamurti’s teachings seem more deep existential therapy than systematic philosophy.
- [The Paradox of Being Responsible, Yet Not Responsible: A Compilation of Student Responses](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/the-paradox-of-being-responsible-yet-not-responsible-a-compilation-of-student-responses/): As teachers concerned about young people today, we composed some questions that we felt were crucial in helping us understand their processes of growing up.
- [Innocent Prejudice](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/innocent-prejudice/): Eleven pairs of bright black eyes stare at me from eleven attentive faces, their pencils hovering over the page.
- [Building Bridges Between School and Village: Traditional Performing Arts](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/building-bridges-between-school-and-village-traditional-performing-arts/): The role and importance of folk performing artsThe folk performing arts have been traditionally used as vehicles of communication.
- [The Hedgehog and the Fox: Reflections on a Father-Son Dialogue](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/the-hedgehog-and-the-fox-reflections-on-a-father-son-dialogue/): This is a book* for many of those modern persons who hover on the brink of religion, those who wish to have faith but are unable to, and who say “Lord, I disbelieve, help thou my belief.” In a fatherson dialogue recorded over a length of three hundred closely printed pages, the book exposes the basic questions involved in this perennial human predicament in its modern form.
- [A New Way of Thinking for Children: New Approaches to the Curriculum](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/a-new-way-of-thinking-for-children-new-approaches-to-the-curriculum/): In an age where there is constant manipulation of the senses, of decisions regarding lifestyle taking place, the young person is under constant threat to conform or else fall out.
- [Cities and Cultures: New Approaches to the Curriculum](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/cities-and-cultures-new-approaches-to-the-curriculum/): Rethinking the Social Studies Curriculum  New ventures often begin with discontent.
- [Learning About the Beginnings of Life: Reflections of New Writings](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/learning-about-the-beginnings-of-life-reflections-of-new-writings/): 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.
- [Recreating the Sangam and Pallava Ages: Reflections on New Writings](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/recreating-the-sangam-and-pallava-ages-reflections-on-new-writings/): When I look back at my history lessons in school, I am always intrigued by my own transformation from an utterly indifferent history student to an adult with a deep conviction that history is (perhaps) the most interesting and important subject ever.
- [Breaking New Ground: Sourcing Materials for the History Classroom](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/breaking-new-ground-sourcing-materials-for-the-history-classroom/): The teaching and learning of history has been and will, by its very nature, be an area of much debate and controversy.
- [Youth in Transition](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/youth-in-transition/): The youth of our times are in a special situation. The past four or five decades have unfolded into hitherto unknown situations in terms of culture and shifting beliefs.
- [On the Nature of a Walk](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/on-the-nature-of-a-walk/): “Look, a hare is jumping out of that bush!”  “Let’s sit and quietly watch the snake coming out of its hole.”  “Please help me get off this rock, aunty! I can’t find the grips!”  “Hey, there’s a bird fallen on the ground.
- [Being Nothing, Doing Nothing: Cultivating the 'Other Part' of the Brain](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/being-nothing-doing-nothing-cultivating-the-other-part-of-the-brain/): Because our minds are crowded, we crowd our lives — with busy schedules, multiple activities, plans and projects for a better life.
- [On Nurtuting the Motivation to Learn: Outcome of a Group Discussion](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/on-nurtuting-the-motivation-to-learn-outcome-of-a-group-discussion/): The question has often been asked of Krishnamurti schools as to how, in the absence of competition, reward and punishment, they educate students and help them to be proficient in academic learning.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/editorial-issue-8/): A tree derives its strength from its roots, striking deep into the earth, giving it stability and sustenance.
- [On the Long Vision](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/on-the-long-vision/): I think most of us know what is happening in the world—the threat of war, the nuclear bomb, the many tensions and conflicts that have brought about new crises.
- [Reporting on the Senior School Student](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8/reporting-on-the-senior-school-student/): “Is this a report meeting that I see before me?”
- [A Journey into Education: An interview](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4/a-journey-into-education-an-interview-2/): Sridhar (S): Rajesh, many people feel that Krishnamurti’s teaching is abstract and impractical for today’s world and especially so in the organizational context of a school.
- [Review of "A is for Ox: The Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Age", Barry Sanders](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/review-of-a-is-for-ox-the-collapse-of-literacy-and-the-rise-of-violence-in-an-electronic-age-barry-sanders/): 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.
- [Origami and Mathematics (And my Experience with Class Nine)](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/origami-and-mathematics-and-my-experience-with-class-nine/): I got involved in Origami a couple of years back when I came across a marvelous model of a hyperbolic parabola.
- [At School with Design: Introducing Design Studies](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/at-school-with-design-introducing-design-studies/): As parents of children at the school, three of us (Aarti Kawlra, Deepa Kamath and Kalpana Shah Korwar) have been associated with different projects and activities at The School, KFI—in the preparation of a class newspaper, in teaching a session on the role of cotton and weaving in the Industrial Revolution, in the designing of the wash area outside the dining hall.
- [The Challenge of Teaching Psychology](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/the-challenge-of-teaching-psychology/): As teachers in the K schools we are more than usually concerned with human nature and human consciousness, the very stuff of academic psychology.
- [Making School Trips Meaningful](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/making-school-trips-meaningful/): Just a few days before our last school trip, a friend of ours, an anthropology scholar, visited us at school.
- [The Role of Study Trips in Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/the-role-of-study-trips-in-education/): The primary objective and intent of our schools is to awaken intelligence in the educator and the student.
- [Understanding Another Way of Learning: Personal Observations of a Junior School Classroom](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/understanding-another-way-of-learning-personal-observations-of-a-junior-school-classroom/): I must begin by setting the scene. I moved to Chennai, India just under eighteen months ago from the United Kingdom, where I have spent most of my life.
- [Teaching the History of The Indian National Movement](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/teaching-the-history-of-the-indian-national-movement/): This article tries to point out some of the difficulties faced by a teacher teaching the history of the Indian National Movement to a class of senior students within the constraints of a certain received version of it assumed and propagated by the syllabus and by standard textbooks.
- [Energy: A Multidisciplinary School Project](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/energy-a-multidisciplinary-school-project/): On the Theme and Process of the Project  ‘Energy’—the term has many meanings and each of these impacts our lives in direct ways.
- [Why Study History?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/why-study-history/): My study of history would be incomplete if, after having surveyed the process of history, I failed to ask myself what history is…        [Toynbee]
- [When does the Seed Sprout?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/when-does-the-seed-sprout/): As the sun sets on a three-day conference centred around the theme of Creativity and Insight, I watch the lengthening shadows and hear the twitter of the birds at dusk.
- [Creativity and Insight in Daily Life](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/creativity-and-insight-in-daily-life/): This article is an exploration of creativity as well as the more elusive notion of insight.
- [Creativity and Insight](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/creativity-and-insight/): For this year’s annual conference for teachers of Krishnamurti Schools— held at Rajghat Besant School, Varanasi —the theme chosen was Creativity and Insight.
- [The Student as Historian: The Possibilities of a Study Visit to a Historical Site](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/the-student-as-historian-the-possibilities-of-a-study-visit-to-a-historical-site/): This article describes an attempt to place the student at the centre of the process of learning history.
- [Issues in the Teaching of History: Lessons from Krishnamurti](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/issues-in-the-teaching-of-history-lessons-from-krishnamurti/): (In this article—based on an introductory talk for a workshop on the teaching of the Humanities held at Rishi Valley School— Radhika Herzberger attempts to elucidate the philosophical positions of Krishnamurti that have a direct bearing on how we construe our past, how we might engage with current issues in history teaching, and how we might respond to the challenge of living a life amidst the currents of social as well as inner divisiveness.
- [Relating with the Earth: An Exploration of the Possibilities in Teaching Geography](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/relating-with-the-earth-an-exploration-of-the-possibilities-in-teaching-geography/): In this article I would like to explore the possible ways in which the potentialinherent in geography as a subject can be unfolded, for the teacher and the student.
- [Studying Economics as if People Mattered](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/studying-economics-as-if-people-mattered/): The students enter the classroom. I watch as they place their history folders on the table around which we all sit.
- [Ninny stuff: Utility and Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/ninny-stuff-utility-and-education/): In 1921 when Einstein first visited America, he encountered Edison through a questionnaire.
- [Art, Creativity and All That](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/art-creativity-and-all-that/): Painting harnesses eternity         —Van Gogh  All the achievements of the great painters, poets and composers are the activity of thought: the composer, inwardly hearing the marvellous sound, commits it onto paper.
- [Philosophy as the Contribution of the Humanities](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/philosophy-as-the-contribution-of-the-humanities/): The oldest kind of philosophy, metaphysics, has more often than not consisted of fantastic opinions about the nature of reality.
- [Editorial – Issue 7](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/editorial-issue-7/): Is it possible for a human being to have a sense of goodness in daily life, a goodness that is not idealistic, not sentimental, but actual?
- [Learning is astonishingly difficult](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7/learning-is-astonishingly-difficult/): To look at a flower or a marvellous cloud, you must have a clear, unspotted eye, an eye that has lived and seen a thousand experiences and yet is free of all experience; it is only then that you can see.
- [Review of "The Courage to Teach", Parker J. Palmer](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/review-of-the-courage-to-teach-parker-j-palmer/): Teachers choose their vocation for a number of reasons: love of a subject, a desire to share one’s passion with others, care for young children, interest in understanding the human mind, or to have a say in shaping the next generation.
- [Trekking in the Himalayas](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/trekking-in-the-himalayas/): It was May 1988. At around 8:00 p.m. on a humid, crowded platform of Dadar Railway Station in Mumbai, I was waiting with a bunch of excited, chattering boys and girls.
- [Bards and Birds](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/bards-and-birds/): T
- [Haiku: Art of Perception](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/haiku-art-of-perception/): At the outset, I would like to explore the meaning of the word 'communion', which Krishnamurti often used in his writing.
- [Sample Modules for Media Literacy: Module 3: A Study of Advertisements](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/sample-modules-for-media-literacy-module-3-a-study-of-advertisements/): Objective: To help students analyse a set of advertisements and understand their responses to them.
- [Sample Modules for Media Literacy: Module 2: Analyzing a Woman's Magazine](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/sample-modules-for-media-literacy-module-2-analyzing-a-womans-magazine/): Objective: a) To sensitise young readers, boys and girls, to the potent imagery in the magazine and become aware of its influences.
- [Sample Modules for Media Literacy: Module 1: Television News](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/sample-modules-for-media-literacy-module-1-television-news/): Objective: Creating a critical awareness of various aspects of television news.
- [Understanding our Media Experiences: Towards a Media Literacy Curriculum](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/understanding-our-media-experiences-towards-a-media-literacy-curriculum/): As education concerns itself with an understanding of the world and ourselves, it must necessarily also grapple with the sources of influence and representations of reality thatwe are constantly exposed to. With the invasion of the mass media, particularly, it has become a crucial function of education to help children pay attention to the influences they imbibe and the representations they internalize.
- [Media, Society and Education: Perspectives and Issues for Our Times](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/media-society-and-education-perspectives-and-issues-for-our-times/): We live in a media-dominated society. The urban dweller's world view is increasingly shaped by the news-bites and entertainment offered by the electronic media (with a range of 60-odd television channels and a variety of home entertainment gadgets to choose from).
- [Media and Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/media-and-education/): There is an urgent concern among educators about the pervasive role that the media plays in all our lives today.
- [Three Months at Rajghat](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/three-months-at-rajghat/): It was almost a year ago that my husband Julian and I decided that it was time for us to take a career break, to reflect on where we were in our lives, to leave the treadmill of work and commuting in South England, and to gain some experience of another culture.
- [Brockwood Park School and the Krishnamurti Legacy](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/brockwood-park-school-and-the-krishnamurti-legacy/): A
- [A Science Curriculum in the Making](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/a-science-curriculum-in-the-making/): When five science teachers get together to discuss what science teaching (or learning) should be across the school, it makes for a rambling, shapeless and extended discussion over many months.
- [On Learning Difficulties](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/on-learning-difficulties/): What are 'Learning Difficulties'?  Today, a large number of schools and institutions across India are sensitive to the fact that 15 percent of all school-going children have some degree of learning difficulties.
- [Some Reflection](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/some-reflection/): D
- [Learning in Relationship](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/learning-in-relationship/): A
- [In Quest of Total Excellence](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6/in-quest-of-total-excellence/): Surely a school is a place where one learns about the totality, the wholeness of life.
- [Partial and Total Insight: Constructivism and Krishnamurti's Pedagogy](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-15/partial-and-total-insight-constructivism-and-krishnamurtis-pedagogy/): ‘What I am trying to say is that insight is never partial; I am talking of total, not partial, insight … An artist can have a partial insight.
- [Oak Grove School: The Growth of a Learning Centre](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-15/oak-grove-school-the-growth-of-a-learning-centre/): Excerpts from a talk given at the International Symposium on ‘Being Alive to Responsible Citizenship: J.
- [Glimpses of the Children's Programme at the Study Centre, Bangalore](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-15/glimpses-of-the-childrens-programme-at-the-study-centre-bangalore/): The Study Centre at Bangalore has been conducting programs for the school children of The Valley School since 1993.
- [Astronomy in School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-15/astronomy-in-school/): Outdoor activities form an integral part of school education.
- [Learning to be a Teacher of History: Excerpts from the Journal of a Beginner](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-15/learning-to-be-a-teacher-of-history-excerpts-from-the-journal-of-a-beginner/): I joined Rajghat Besant School, Varanasi, in July 2009 as a resource person to teach Class XII students.
- [A Love of Theatre: Interview with Gerard Bayle](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-15/a-love-of-theatre-interview-with-gerard-bayle/): The following is an interview with Gerard Bayle, a professional theatre actor who has been working with students in the UK and India for many years.
- [Environmental Education in Our Schools](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-15/environmental-education-in-our-schools/): As it is the United Nations’ Year of Biodiversity, it seems an appropriate time to stand back and take stock of the way we teach environmental education in Krishnamurti Schools.
- [Can One Learn the Art of Living from Nature?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-15/can-one-learn-the-art-of-living-from-nature/): ‘Is man a part of nature, or apart from nature?’ It seems paradoxical to ask such a question.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-15/editorial-issue-15/): True to its eclectic character, this fifteenth issue of the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools has a collection of articles on diverse subjects and topics.
- [Goodness cannot flower in the field of fear](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-15/goodness-cannot-flower-in-the-field-of-fear/): In all our schools the educator and those responsible for the students, whether in the classroom, on the playing field or in their rooms, have the responsibility to see that fear in any form does not arise.
- [What Did You Ask at School Today?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/what-did-you-ask-at-school-today/): 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.
- [Teaching Academy: A Participant's Perspective](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/teaching-academy-a-participants-perspective/): To educate another, you must re-educate yourself, a strenuous task.This statement is, perhaps, widely understood by most teachers who have been in the classroom for more than a few years.
- [Teaching Academy, Ojai 2009](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/teaching-academy-ojai-2009/): Krishnamurti suggested that, 'Education can be transformed only by educating the educator, and not merely creating a new pattern, a new system of action.' Around this challenge, a group of educators participated in a two-week intensive Teaching Academy in the summer of 2009, at Ojai, California.
- [Timeless Questions: A Twelfth Grade Social Studies Class](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/timeless-questions-a-twelfth-grade-social-studies-class/): As a teacher I am always looking for a good thesis sentence, for that perfect one-sentence statement that is a concise summary of an article, a film, an argument, a teaching.
- [The Living Past](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/the-living-past/): The social sciences are ideally suited to a learning that draws on immediate and surrounding worlds.
- [What Must Social Studies Teach? An Exploration for Class Six](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/what-must-social-studies-teach-an-exploration-for-class-six/): When I joined Rishi Valley School a little over an year ago, I was introduced to the teachers' resource cupboard, which had files overflowing with reading and reference material for the Social Studies curriculum for Class 6.
- [The Art of Making Machines: A Science Classroom](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/the-art-of-making-machines-a-science-classroom/): Science is basically an exploration of that which is not known, or put more flamboyantly, the unknown, in the material world.
- [A Mathematical Enquiry](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/a-mathematical-enquiry/): It was an unusually pleasant Wednesday afternoon in July.
- [Exploring a New Dimension to Learning](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/exploring-a-new-dimension-to-learning/): This article describes a new exploration at Oak Grove School, Ojai - Editors'Academic excellence is absolutely necessary, but a school includes much more than that...' J KrishnamurtiOne of the great challenges of providing a Krishnamurti education within the context of an independent tuition-based school (especially here in America), is balancing accountability for academic excellence with all that is entailed in what he considered to be 'much more than that'.
- [Re-examining Words in Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/re-examining-words-in-education/): In the brief articles that follow, we re-examine and unravel the meanings of words commonly used in the field of education.DisciplineWe admire well regulated, ordered lives.
- [A Life Well-lived: Education and Values](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/a-life-well-lived-education-and-values/): Everyone agrees that values should be part of a good education.
- [Writing Textbooks for Children](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/writing-textbooks-for-children/): Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop which makes personal care cosmetics, was once asked admiringly what special materials her products were made from.
- [Poorna:  An Alternative, Inclusive School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/poorna-an-alternative-inclusive-school/): Several years ago my son, then in Class Seven, came home disturbed about an incident in school.
- [Let's Play](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/lets-play/): As a sports teacher the first thing that struck me, or should I say shocked me, was that sports was not a time that everyone looked forward to.
- [Educating Romeo and His Teacher](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/educating-romeo-and-his-teacher/): I am a 17-year-old adolescent male. I am sure this very statement gives you the heebie-jeebies! My parents and teachers are highly educated and have no qualms in sharing all the latest research on adolescents, plus their own home-grown wisdom about teenagers, with me.
- [Learning in Kinship](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/learning-in-kinship/): Most children experience a sharp dichotomy between home and school.
- [Science and Religion](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/science-and-religion/): Discussions of deep philosophical issues may seem out of place in a journal dedicated to K-12 education, but actually philosophical viewpoints (and their assumptions) inform all daily perspectives and behaviors.
- [Educating for the Art of Living](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/educating-for-the-art-of-living/): What is education about? In what general context does it find its meaning, its raison d'être?
- [Krishnamurti and Deep Ecology](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/krishnamurti-and-deep-ecology/): Deep Ecology, a current philosophical movement initiated by the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess in 1972, is shaping the environmental debate by asking fundamental questions about who we are and what human progress means rather than searching merely for technological fixes.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/editorial-issue-14/): This is the fourteenth issue of the Journal and what started as an in-house exchange between the various Krishnamurti schools has, over the years, slowly and quietly found a wider audience.
- [Learning about Oneself](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14/learning-about-oneself/): Questioner: Could you describe how you are aware that you are inattentive?
- [Exploring Krishnamurti's Insights](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13/exploring-krishnamurtis-insights/): BeautyThe perception of beauty is an essential aspect of the teachings of J.
- [Envy and the High Demands of Love](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13/envy-and-the-high-demands-of-love/): Envy is a curious emotion with a long and tragic history in human affairs.
- [Scribbles on a Blackboard: Travels to a Turkish Mathematics Village](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13/scribbles-on-a-blackboard-travels-to-a-turkish-mathematics-village/): An e-mail query in support of a Turkish Mathematics Village more than a year ago lead to a most illuminating, intellectually broadening and exciting experience at the annual Turkish Mathematics Summer School in the idyllic and sleepy but enchanting village of Sirince.
- [The School of Life](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13/the-school-of-life/): Prefatory NoteSince the publication in July 2 2006 of the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools ‘dedicated to the teacher’, there has been an increasing, if varied, response to the necessary task of educating the educator.
- [The Philosophical Underpinnings of Holistic Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13/the-philosophical-underpinnings-of-holistic-education/): Holistic education is a philosophy of education based on the premise that each person finds identity, meaning, and purpose in life through connections to the community, to the natural world, and to spiritual values such as compassion and peace.(Miller, R.
- [Seeking out a New Role for Dance](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13/seeking-out-a-new-role-for-dance/): Most often when I lead a dance class for the first time, the response I get from the boys is, ‘Yuuuuukkkkk dance! It’s for girls!’; and from the girls it is, ‘But when are we going to dance?’ By the end of the session all the children would have engaged with ideas, and used their bodies to express these in space.
- [Music in the Classroom](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13/music-in-the-classroom/): Some years ago, I attended a workshop conducted in Bangalore by teachers from the Royal College of Music, Stockholm.
- [On Being an Effective Teacher](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13/on-being-an-effective-teacher/): We have all had some great teachers. Or at least, if we have not been fortunate enough, we have heard of great teachers.
- [Democracy in Education: An Exploration of Structure](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13/democracy-in-education-an-exploration-of-structure/): Poor effectiveness and quality plague our school system.
- [What are Children Learning from Us?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13/what-are-children-learning-from-us/): There are indeed many things that we consciously teach children, both at home and at school.
- [Self-directed Learning in Mathematics: Applying Krishnamurti in everyday classroom practice](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13/self-directed-learning-in-mathematics-applying-krishnamurti-in-everyday-classroom-practice/): The purpose, the aim and drive of these schools is to equip the child with the most excellent technological proficiency so that the student may function with clarity and efficiency in the modern world.
- [Preparing the Ground for Meaningful Writing](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13/preparing-the-ground-for-meaningful-writing/): As an English teacher I have found great joy in the exploration of meaningful writing with junior and middle school children.
- [Joy of Geography](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13/joy-of-geography/): It is quite astonishing that adults know so little of the world around them.
- [Reading Children: A Perspective from Poetry](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13/reading-children-a-perspective-from-poetry/): The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind Emily DickinsonEarly in my Literature course with students newly come into Class 11, I have given them these lines of poetry to consider:  The apparition of these faces in the crowd;  Petals on a wet, black bough.
- [Walks: To Nurture the Natural](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13/walks-to-nurture-the-natural/): Exulting in an unexpected shower in the summer, running off to float paper boats in puddles after the rains, looking for delicious berries at a particular time of the year, watching little insects, picking wild flowers to make bouquets, finding shining smooth pebbles or shells, feeling the soft sand and the rushing water on the beach, climbing a giant tree, running up and down a hillside—the list can go on.
- [Educating the Educator: Self-Inquiry for Parents and Teachers](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13/educating-the-educator-self-inquiry-for-parents-and-teachers/): To give knowledge which does not become an end in itself and to educate the mind to have a long vision, a wide comprehension of life, is not possible if education is based on authority.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13/editorial-issue-13/): The thirteenth issue of the Journal is in your hands.
- [Reaching out to Government Schools in Tamil Nadu](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13/reaching-out-to-government-schools-in-tamil-nadu/): The School, KFI, Chennai has created a new methodology that seeks to build a link between knowledge and empowerment, to equip each student with the ability to think, to apply and to discover.
- [On Ambition: A Talk to Students](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13/on-ambition-a-talk-to-students/): We have heard people say, that without ambition, we cannot do anything.
- [Action Research: The Power of Action through Inquiry](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-12/action-research-the-power-of-action-through-inquiry/): Teachers often see research as involving distance and separation from their work.
- [A Structural Answer to a Cultural Question: Mixed Age Group in the Middle School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-12/a-structural-answer-to-a-cultural-question-mixed-age-group-in-the-middle-school/): This article is an account of a pilot project on learning in a mixed age group environment in the middle school classes 5, 6 and 7, initiated at The School, KFI, in Chennai in the year 2006-2007.
- [Fading Boundaries: Death of the School, the Teacher and the Taught](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-12/fading-boundaries-death-of-the-school-the-teacher-and-the-taught/): ‘May we please go outside?’ a student pleads, batting eyelids as I walk into a noisy room of fifteen-year-olds.
- [Preparing Students for Examinations And Teaching a Subject Well](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-12/preparing-students-for-examinations-and-teaching-a-subject-well/): There is an implicit assumption widely shared by teachers in the Krishnamurti schools that preparing students to face examinations shifts focus away from learning a subject.
- [Rules of Living](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-12/rules-of-living/): It is almost received wisdom in alternative schools and other similar communities that rules are antigrowth; they restrict creativity and stifle the true cooperative spirit.
- [The Evolution of the Sanctuary Schools at Kaigal](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-12/the-evolution-of-the-sanctuary-schools-at-kaigal/): It is nine in the morning at Kalligutta, a remote tribal settlement just outside the Kaundinya Wildlife Sanctuary, Andhra Pradesh.
- [Drawing Students into Environmental Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-12/drawing-students-into-environmental-education/): Teaching environmental education has been part of our curriculum at the Rishi Valley School well before the subject was made mandatory for all students as per the orders of the Supreme Court.
- [An Approach to Environmental Education: Lessons from Krishnamurti](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-12/an-approach-to-environmental-education-lessons-from-krishnamurti/): This article is based on my experience of teaching Environmental Education for Classes 9 and 10 for the past ten years.
- [Understanding the Story of Our Lives: The Limitations of the Tools of Science](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-12/understanding-the-story-of-our-lives-the-limitations-of-the-tools-of-science/): The story of life is lived by us. It is experienced first hand from day to day.
- [Chakravyuha](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-12/chakravyuha/): The formation called Chakravyuha was used in one of the battles of the Mahabharata.
- [Thinking about Art](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-12/thinking-about-art/): Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
- [The Philosophy of Vocational Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-12/the-philosophy-of-vocational-education/): The U.S. has its own history and tradition of vocational education.
- [Culture in One's Life](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-12/culture-in-ones-life/): As Indians, we honestly believe that culture is in our blood and that this gives us an edge over other nationalities.
- [Yet Another Confession of a Science Teacher](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-12/yet-another-confession-of-a-science-teacher/): I am sure all of us have had occasions when we have felt a sense of dissatisfaction; days when we wonder why we are doing what we are doing, days when we wonder whether it is any use at all, whether teachers have anything to do with the learning of the child.
- [Aesthetics and the Sense of Wonder in the Teaching of Science and Mathematics](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-12/aesthetics-and-the-sense-of-wonder-in-the-teaching-of-science-and-mathematics/): In the silence of deep night and in the quiet still morning when the sun is touching the hills, there is a great mystery.
- [The Scientific Spirit and the Quest for Wisdom](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-12/the-scientific-spirit-and-the-quest-for-wisdom/): Science and Society Though modern science is of relatively recent origin in human history, it has made very rapid progress and transformed outwardly the manner of our living.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-12/editorial-issue-12/): The world over, we lament the state of education. We might observe directly the plight of a generation of young people weighed down by the burden of seemingly meaningless academic curricula and indifferent teaching practices, alongside spiralling aspirations for securing the ‘good life’.
- [Teachers or educators are human beings](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-12/teachers-or-educators-are-human-beings/): Teachers or educators are human beings. Their function is to help the student to learn not only this or that subject, but to understand the whole activity of learning; not only to gather information about various subjects, but primarily to be complete human beings.
- [Review of "Birds and Plant Regeneration", Tara Gandhi](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11/review-of-birds-and-plant-regeneration-tara-gandhi/): I remember a conversation I had with a young bird watcher in Sahayadri School.
- [Review of "A Flame of Learning", J. Krishnamurti](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11/review-of-a-flame-of-learning-j-krishnamurti/): A Flame of Learning’ is not an easy book to read—but then few worthwhile things are easy.
- [Contemporary Culture and Adolescent Risk](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11/contemporary-culture-and-adolescent-risk/): Adolescence is often described as a period of increased impulsive and risk-taking behaviour.
- [Knowledge and Dialogue in Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11/knowledge-and-dialogue-in-education/): Education and dialogue have gone together from the beginning.
- [Amaltash: Individualised learning in a vertical group](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11/amaltash-individualised-learning-in-a-vertical-group/): The Amaltash programme started as a pilot project to study the problems and possibilities of individualised and group learning in a mixed age group in the middle school.
- [Nature Journal and Circle Time: Two activities for the junior school](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11/nature-journal-and-circle-time-two-activities-for-the-junior-school/): Over my years of working with little children in different settings, I have developed a few activities that I feel go well with this stage of growth. I share here two such activities. Nature Journal Being with nature is wonderful indeed for me. How can I convey this feeling to the children under my care? […]
- [Teaching Creative Writing](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11/teaching-creative-writing/): When I began my career as a teacher, my students were middle and senior school children.
- [Meeting Life: A landscapes and life skills course](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11/meeting-life-a-landscapes-and-life-skills-course/): This article is a description of a Landscapes course offered in 2006 and 2007, from December/January to April/May, to a group of young adults.
- [The Idea of Santiniketan: A Personal Understanding](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11/the-idea-of-santiniketan-a-personal-understanding/): One of our friends who comes from a nearby village reported that the first thing a new headmaster does to make his presence felt in a village, is to paint the school building and then expel a student! He told us the story when our own school building was being painted at the time of the joining of a new principal.
- [Desperate Times and a New Order of Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11/desperate-times-and-a-new-order-of-education/): Listening to my daughter’s tenth grade history teacher at Parents’ Night the other evening, I found out that California high school world history covers only modern history:the European Enlightenment, the French Revolution, world colonialism, World War I, World War II, the Cold War and so on up to the present day.
- [The "Sameness" Curriculum](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11/the-sameness-curriculum/): We are aware of ourselves and act as individuals with distinct personalities.
- [Perspectives on Testing](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11/perspectives-on-testing/): Testing is an inseparable part of the learning process.
- [The Evolving Chant](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11/the-evolving-chant/): The introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state, for styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions ..
- [The Elegant Science of Life: Biology](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11/the-elegant-science-of-life-biology-boxed-in-the-classroom/): Here is some recent, assorted news making headlines in the field of biology:
- [On Mathematics, Nature, and the Nature of Learning](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11/on-mathematics-nature-and-the-nature-of-learning/): Have you ever taken a walk down a long winding road along the banks of a river, amidst strewn pebbles, clusters of wild grass, acorns and scattered chestnuts?
- [Is Environmental Education an Oxymoron?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11/is-environmental-education-an-oxymoron/): For those calling themselves environmental educators, it is sobering to note that the only people who have lived sustainably in the Amazon rain forests, the desert Southwest, or anywhere else on earth could not read or write (which is not to say that they were uneducated).
- [Goodness in a Changing World](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11/goodness-in-a-changing-world/): Our discussions in the recent past have often veered towards some troubling trends that we notice in the lives of the urban middle and upper-class students in our schools.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11/editorial-issue-11/): ...seeing all these outward things without condemnation, without choice, you can ride on the tide of inner awareness.
- [On Behaviour](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11/on-behaviour/): One of the most difficult things in life is to find a way of behaviour that is not dictated by circumstances.
- [Reality Isn't What It Used to Be](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/reality-isn-t-what-it-used-to-be/): As Merlin was to young King Arthur, so every adult must become to every child.
- [Physical Education: An Integrated Approach](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/physical-education-an-integrated-approach/): We see around us three kinds of attitudes related to the body.
- [A Philosophical Look at Modern Culture](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/a-philosophical-look-at-modern-culture/): Philosophy, perhaps more than any other academic discipline, is thought to deal with intellectual things, or 'ideas'.
- [Facilitating Career Discovery](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/facilitating-career-discovery/): The meaning and purpose of work Work is as old as the history of mankind.
- [Crossing the Great Divide](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/crossing-the-great-divide/): Career Choice, a critical juncture The choice of a career is and will always be one of two most critical decisions in the first few years of one's adulthood -- rivalled only by the choice of a mate.
- [It is the Educator who Needs Educating](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/it-is-the-educator-who-needs-educating/): We are apt to feel, in the cut and press of daily life and in the fulfilment of our responsibilities to the school and to its students, that our lives are caught up in minutiae: ongoing lesson preparation, correction of papers, assessment, examinations, meetings and administrative decisions.
- [Health Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/health-education/): What does health mean to young people? They are active and energetic and rarely lack in physical vitality.
- [Adolescent Angst](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/adolescent-angst/): As a teacher, house parent and a parent, not necessarily in that order, I have often wondered at the seemingly irreconcilable differences between an energetic, impulsive, complaining, 'immature', angst ridden adolescent and the staid, 'mature', orderly adult.
- [Dimensions of Awareness](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/dimensions-of-awareness/): A distinctive feature of holistic education is nurturing the spirit.
- [A Gently Socratic Enquiry](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/a-gently-socratic-enquiry/): A paramount objective of education is to help children develop their ability to think for themselves and to learn to use this ability in responsible ways.
- [Trans-personal Growth](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/trans-personal-growth/): Pre-conventional, Conventional and Trans-personal Stages of Development Recent psychological studies in human development suggest an interesting three-stage model of development: pre-conventional, conventional and trans-personal (or post-conventional).
- [Creating Books Without a Formula](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/creating-books-without-a-formula/): Children in India traditionally grew up listening to stories.
- [Children and Reading](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10/children-and-reading/): Why do we want our children to read? I refer to the wide range of books in fiction and non-fiction, which are perused by children and young adults from ages six to eighteen.
- [Reflections on Values and the Culture of Schools](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/reflections-on-values-and-the-culture-of-schools/): 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 Pay Attention to Everything](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/to-pay-attention-to-everything/): 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.
- [The Gardener in Me](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/the-gardener-in-me/): 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 Stretch Oneself…](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/to-stretch-oneself/): 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.
- [On Attention](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/on-attention/): 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.
- [Education and Enquiry](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/education-and-enquiry/): 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.
- [Oaks, Mountain Vistas and Children: An Inner Exploration in Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/oaks-mountain-vistas-and-children-an-inner-exploration-in-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.
- [What do I Teach when I Teach a Subject?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/what-do-i-teach-when-i-teach-a-subject/): 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.
- [The School as a Religious Place](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/the-school-as-a-religious-place/): 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.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/editorial-issue-20/): 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.
- [Goodness](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/goodness/): Goodness can flower only in freedom. It cannot bloom in the soil of persuasion in any form, nor under compulsion, nor is it the outcome of reward.
- [Review of the Hindi Ki Duniya Series](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/review-of-the-hindi-ki-duniya-series/): 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.
- [The School as a Centre of Inquiry for Adults: Inviting Parents to the School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/the-school-as-a-centre-of-inquiry-for-adults-inviting-parents-to-the-school/): Shibumi, in Bangalore, is a small alternative centre started by a group which includes a trustee of the KFI and teachers who have worked and studied in various Krishnamurti schools in India.
- [Schooling, Exams, and Livelihoods: Parents' Perspectives on Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/schooling-exams-and-livelihoods-parents-perspectives-on-education/): Last year on a ‘sabbatical’ from Rishi Valley School I had the opportunity to work with a variety of educational projects, three of these in association with ‘Shishukunj’, an organization I have known since my childhood.
- [A Vital Role for the Librarian: Assessing Children's Reading](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/a-vital-role-for-the-librarian-assessing-children-s-reading/): As children journey through reading, there are markers along the way which can inform the librarian-educator about their understanding, deepening engagement and discernment of the written and the spoken word.
- [Playing with Numbers or Delving into History? Thinking Mathematically at Junior School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/playing-with-numbers-or-delving-into-history-thinking-mathematically-at-junior-school/): It was the year of major changes in the academic programme of our junior school’s mixed age group classes.
- [The Challenge of School Education in Our Times](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/the-challenge-of-school-education-in-our-times/): Once upon a time, a long time ago, there were teachers who were actively sought out by students and their parents. Students were immersed in a lifestyle dictated by the times and by the teacher’s predilections and resources.
- [Stepping Out: Issues and Challenges of Leaving School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/stepping-out-issues-and-challenges-of-leaving-school/): A very significant transition occurs when young adults, already coping with the issues of late adolescence, step out of school and into college.
- [A Living Foundation: Being Educated With Krishnamurti](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/a-living-foundation-being-educated-with-krishnamurti/): Self-inquiry is a process that delves into all areas of concern and conflict in life. Yet its relevance to the psychological well-being of children is largely overlooked because it is commonly regarded as an adult preoccupation.
- [Celebrating Science](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/celebrating-science/): The aim of the Science Mela was to create greater awareness, interest and appreciation of the different facets of science.
- [Mind of the Middle-Schooler](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/mind-of-the-middle-schooler/): I am often struck by the openness and earnestness with which these questions are raised by middle-school children, all of 10-12 years, in a class.
- [The Autobiographical Self: The Case of a Mistaken Identity](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/the-autobiographical-self-the-case-of-a-mistaken-identity/): Mystics throughout the ages have told us that the self is an illusion and that it is in ‘ending the self’ that true freedom lies. Today, neurobiologists confirm that there is no ‘ghost in the machine’, and yet we have a very embodied experience of the world.
- [A Letter to my Young, and not so Young, Friends](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/a-letter-to-my-young-and-not-so-young-friends/): 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.
- [Exploring Integrative Education: the Story of Marudam](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/exploring-integrative-education-the-story-of-marudam/): 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.
- [The Mountains will Surely Speak to You](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/the-mountains-will-surely-speak-to-you/): A high altitude trek in the Himalayas has become a part of the learning programme at The Valley School, Bangalore, since the year 2000. In the late nineties, it was an optional event every summer where a handful of high school students and one or two adults would participate.
- [Exploring 'Self-Awareness' at IIT, Madras](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/exploring-self-awareness-at-iit-madras/): Are we preparing our youth to take to the heroic wise path of the dhirah, the fulfilling path of sreyah? The evidence, unfortunately, points heavily to the contrary. The vast majority of our ‘educated’ population are clearly on the mandah’s path of preyah—with a focus almost entirely on enjoying various sensual pleasures, amassing wealth and acquiring power at any cost.
- [The Spirit of Art in a Classroom](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/440-the-spirit-of-art-in-a-classroom/): Every narrative on society categorizes people. It even segments thoughts and actions. It sees life as a set of predefined options. Based on which one we choose, we are either co-opted into a definite identity, or we inherit one. We have to belong to a category or a type.
- [Learning the Craft of Teaching](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/learning-the-craft-of-teaching/): In my first year as a teacher, I was fortunate to chance upon Kamala Mukunda’s book What did You Ask at School Today? From the chapter titled ‘Motivation’ I gained a perspective (perhaps not intended by the author) that has shaped my teaching practice over the past three years.
- [Breaking Walls and Amending Fences: Some Thoughts on Unconditioning at School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/breaking-walls-and-amending-fences-some-thoughts-on-unconditioning-at-school/): Most of the deliberate activities in a school are concerned with building up: accumulating knowledge, honing skills, developing the complex processes that constitute what we call thinking; developing too an aesthetic and moral sensibility, a stance towards the world and towards ourselves.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/editorial-issue-19/): 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.
- [Affection](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/affection/): To continue with what we were saying in our previous letter, we were pointing out your responsibility to study, to learn and to act.
- [A Master Class in Inquiry: Questioning Authority and the Awakening of Intelligence, Excerpts with Comments](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/a-master-class-in-inquiry-questioning-authority-and-the-awakening-of-intelligence/): 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.
- [Process Behind a Pageant: An Interview with Akhila Seshadri](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/process-behind-a-pageant-an-interview-with-akhila-seshadri/): 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.
- [Charms and Challenges of an Ancient Language: Teaching Sanskrit in Middle School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/charms-and-challenges-of-an-ancient-language-teaching-sanskrit-in-middle-school/): 'Why do we need to learn a dead language?' 'Where shall we ever use it?' 'Is Sanskrit relevant to today's world?'
- [On Sustaining 'Culture Spaces' in Schools](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/on-sustaining-culture-spaces-in-schools/): 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!
- [The Mirror of the Text: Teaching Philosophy Through Knowing and Not-Knowing](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/the-mirror-of-the-text-teaching-philosophy-through-knowing-and-not-knowing/): 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'.
- [The Buddha, Rodin's Thinker and a Pair of Birds: An Exploration into the Nature of Human Consciousness](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/the-buddha-rodin-s-thinker-and-a-pair-of-birds-an-exploration-into-the-nature-of-human-consciousness/): Two birds, inseparable companions, cling to the self-same tree. Of these, one eats the sweet fruit and the other looks on without eating.
- [In A Faraway Land: The Thinking Behind a School Excursion](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/in-a-faraway-land-the-thinking-behind-a-school-excursion/): '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.
- [The Art of Inquiry in the Literature Classroom:   Musings from an Ex-English Teacher](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/the-art-of-inquiry-in-the-literature-classroom-musings-from-an-ex-english-teacher/): I have always loved literature, largely because of the sentiments expressed in Dickinson's poem.
- [Dialogue Through the Ages](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/dialogue-through-the-ages/): 'What do you think dialogue is all about?'
- [Building Up and Coming Down](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/building-up-and-coming-down/): In the course of our lives, we seem to know things in two, rather different ways.
- [Decline of Outdoor Activities Among Children: Why Should it Concern Us?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/decline-of-outdoor-activities-among-children-why-should-it-concern-us/): 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.
- [Nature as Teacher: Extending the Learning Community](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/nature-as-teacher-extending-the-learning-community/): Environmental education is an ideal forum to put into practice some of the educational insights of Eleanor Duckworth.
- [Writing as a Way into the World: A Record of One Year Spent in Rishi Valley](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/writing-as-a-way-into-the-world-a-record-of-one-year-spent-in-rishi-valley/): 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?'
- [Endearing and Trying: They Are Only Twelve-Year-Olds](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/endearing-and-trying-they-are-only-twelve-year-olds/): 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.
- [A Practice of Mindfulness Within Childhood Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/a-practice-of-mindfulness-within-childhood-education/): The importance of self-knowledge is mentioned in many school mission statements, and this is not surprising.
- [A Light Unto Oneself](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/a-light-unto-oneself/): Memories of Ahalya Di remain fresh, crisp. Just a few days before she passed away, I spent a precious week with her.
- [Ahalya Chari As I Knew Her](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/ahalya-chari-as-i-knew-her/): 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.
- [An Impersonal Responsibility](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/an-impersonal-responsibility/): 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.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/editorial-issue-18/): A year ago, in November 2012, the Journal editorial team was sitting around in Ahalyaji's room, wrapping things up for the seventeenth issue.
- [Letters to Schools: Volume One - 15 December 1978](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18/letters-to-schools-volume-one-15-december-1978/): In one of the past letters we said that total responsibility is love.
- ['To Know Is Not Enough': Critical Thinking in a Krishnamurti School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/to-know-is-not-enough-critical-thinking-in-a-krishnamurti-school/): Underneath the obvious critical situation of the economy and the environment, isn’t the world today actually suffering from a crisis in knowing and thinking?
- [From Visibility to Accountability and Assessment: A Sleight of Hand](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/from-visibility-to-accountability-and-assessment-a-sleight-of-hand/): School is an institution for drilling children [and teachers] in cultural orientations.
- [Learning from Feedback](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/learning-from-feedback/): You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view ...
- [On Lighting a Passion for Reading](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/on-lighting-a-passion-for-reading/): It was on a crisp winter morning, when the entire teacher body of Rajghat Besant School sat in the eastern verandah of our magnificent assembly hall that it was announced that articles were invited for the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools.
- [The World 'Between the Lines': What does Reading Comprehension Really Mean?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/the-world-between-the-lines-what-does-reading-comprehension-really-mean/): For some time now, I have been fascinated by what children are thinking about as they read.
- [The Alphabet of Literature](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/the-alphabet-of-literature/): I don’t want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.
- [My Introduction to J Krishnamurti's Teachings](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/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.
- [Dynamics of a Grand Finale: The End-of-Term Event at Brockwood Park](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/dynamics-of-a-grand-finale-the-end-of-term-event-at-brockwood-park/): No one remembers why they called it the ‘Concert’.
- [Inner Work: A Way to Create Emotional Well-being](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/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.
- [Not Different in Kind: Exploration into the Teacher-Student Relationship](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/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.
- [Vision and Practice: Exploring Reward and Punishment in Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/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.
- [A Time to Reckon: Theme Meetings at School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/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.
- [Theme Meetings: A Conversation Space for Educators and Parents](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/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.
- [Educating to be a Part of not Apart from the Environment](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/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.
- [Big Brother isn't Watching You - and is not too sure what he is seeing](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/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.
- [Communication: Studying a Krishnamurti Text](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/communication-studying-a-krishnamurti-tex/): 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.
- [The Subject of Art](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/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.
- [Composing a Culture in Music](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/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.
- [Prashanti's Dilemma: Wisdom and Struggle in Students' Voices](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/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.
- [Small Wonders](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/small-wonders/): The junior school children, aged around eight, are in class for a geometry module.
- [Awakening Empathy in Early Childhood](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/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.
- [What is Academic Rigour?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/what-is-academic-rigour/): 'Academics’ is a top priority in all educational institutions, for obvious reasons.
- [The Next Step](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/editorial-issue-17/): Krishnamurti questioned the schools constantly about why they were producing mice instead of lions and gazelles.
- [Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/education/): Question: What kind of education should my child have, in order to face this chaotic world?
- [Teaching at University: Challenges and Concerns](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-16/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?
- [From the Mind's Attic](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-16/from-the-minds-attic/): It is as though you have an eye  That sees all forms  But does not see itself.
- [The Calendar of Nature: Connecting Children with Nature through the Observation of Trees](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-16/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.
- [An Experiment in Self-Observation](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-16/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.
- [Space and Spirit](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-16/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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-16/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.
- [Learning in Friendship and Leisure](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-16/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.
- [Child as a Kite](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-16/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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-16/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.
- [On Retreats](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-16/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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-16/close-encounters-of-a-natural-kind-nature-based-curriculum-from-intent-to-action/): In my childhood, nature had an amorphous, seraphic form.
- [Mushtifund School, Goa: The Story of How a Mainstream Traditional School Experimented with Change](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-16/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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-16/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.
- [Singular and Plural: Understanding the Individual and the Group](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-16/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.
- [An Invitation to Look Inward](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-16/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.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-16/editorial-issue-6/): Here we are with the sixteenth issue of the Journal. Run your eye over the titles on the contents page and you will get an impression that themes based on children, teaching and learning—core concerns in any journal of education—are surrounded by themes such as nature, space, spirit, touch, retreat and looking inward. How are these connected with education? That there is a vital link between all these themes and the educational enterprise is what I wish to show.
- [On Enquiry](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-16/on-enquiry/): I think there is a process of learning which is not related to wanting to be taught.
- [Our Inner Landscape](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-15/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.
- [Teachers' Fears: Some Scenarios](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-15/teachers-fears-some-scenarios/): Teachers are human beings too. And being human, they share in the fears that human beings live with.
- [Being and Becoming: Some Thoughts on Adolescence and Fear](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-15/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.
- [Children's Fears](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-15/childrens-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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-15/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.
- [Anxiety, Openness and Freedom](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-15/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.
- [The Art of Parenting](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-15/the-art-of-parenting/): The razzle-dazzle of technology and media has captured the hearts and minds of teenagers, far outpacing parents’ and teachers’ ability to hold the attention of youth.
- [Heartful Attention: One child at a time](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-24/heartful-attention-one-child-at-a-time/): 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.
- [The Hundred Languages of Children: How little children make sense of the world](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-24/the-hundred-languages-of-children-how-little-children-make-sense-of-the-world/): 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.
- [Meeting Life at Eighteen: Some experiences at an undergraduate program](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-24/meeting-life-at-eighteen-some-experiences-at-an-undergraduate-program/): 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.
- [A Trail of Learning](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-24/a-trail-of-learning/): 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.
- [Structure and Spontaneity: A fine balancing act](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-24/structure-and-spontaneity-a-fine-balancing-act/): 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.
- ['What Ails the Adyar?’ A Chennai River Study](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-24/what-ails-the-adyar-a-chennai-river-study/): ‘What ails the Adyar?’ was the title of the sociology project last year at The School, Chennai. The idea to use the river Adyar as an entry point for a group study on research methods came from environmental activist Nityanand Jayaraman, who has been collecting narratives of residents living along the banks of the river as part of the work of his collective called the Vettiver Koottamaippu or Vettiver Collective.
- [Nature and the Androgynous Mind](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-24/nature-and-the-androgynous-mind/): 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.
- [On Balance](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-24/on-balance/): 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.
- [Energy: From science to silence](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-24/energy-from-science-to-silence/): 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.
- [Speaking of Solitude](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-24/speaking-of-solitude/): 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.
- [Radical Downtime](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-24/radical-downtime/): 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.
- [The Common Ground of All Humanity](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-24/the-common-ground-of-all-humanity/): 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.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-24/editorial-issue-24/): 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.
- [Learning is Discipline](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-24/learning-is-discipline/): 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.
- [Book Review - Teaching Tales, Learning Trails](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/book-review-teaching-tales-learning-trails/): 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.
- [Book Review - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/book-review-sapiens-a-brief-history-of-humankind/): 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.
- [Pathashaala: The inner life of a residential 'K' school](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/pathashaala-the-inner-life-of-a-residential-k-school/): 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.
- [Making Your Own Curriculum: A conversation between educators](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/making-your-own-curriculum-a-conversation-between-educators/): 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.
- [Valuing Vulnerability: Why clip the wings of a butterfly?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/valuing-vulnerability-why-clip-the-wings-of-a-butterfly/): 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.
- [The Conundrum of Awakening Intelligence](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/the-conundrum-of-awakening-intelligence/): 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.
- [Questioning the Way We Grade](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/questioning-the-way-we-grade/): 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.
- [Technology and the Classroom: A wider perspective](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/technology-and-the-classroom-a-wider-perspective/): 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.
- [Thinking for Oneself: A Theme Meeting](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/thinking-for-oneself-a-theme-meeting/): 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.
- [An Apology to X, Y and Zee](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/an-apology-to-x-y-and-zee/): 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.
- [Teacher](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/teacher/): 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.
- [City Life](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/city-life/): 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.
- [Haiku](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/haiku/): 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.
- [Poetry as a Portal](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/poetry-as-a-portal/): 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.
- [Kite-Flying for Beginners: Dialogue in our schools and centres](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/kite-flying-for-beginners-dialogue-in-our-schools-and-centres/): We are familiar with dialogue in film scripts and novels where it means, simply, a conversational exchange—one person speaks, the other responds. It began, probably, with the dawn of language itself. Only later, with the ancient Hindus and the Greeks, did it acquire the sense of a discourse pursued with the clear intention of arriving at truth.
- [Meeting 'Otherness'](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/meeting-otherness/): 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.
- [On Re-designing Spaces for Learning](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/on-re-designing-spaces-for-learning/): Thirty years ago, when a teacher had started building a school, she received a suggestion from the architect, “Make the windows four feet off the floor so that the children don’t look outside”. Keeping children inside concrete walls, away from ‘distractions’, was a common practice.
- [Teaching Philosophy of Science in a High School Classroom](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/teaching-philosophy-of-science-in-a-high-school-classroom/): 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.
- [A Story Telling a Story: Origin and death of the 'self'](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/a-story-telling-a-story-origin-and-death-of-the-self/): 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.
- [My Quest as an Educator](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/my-quest-as-an-educator/): 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.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/editorial-issue-23/): 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.
- [Psychological Time](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23/psychological-time/): 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.
- [Book Review - 'The Reflective Teacher' : A Review and Some Reflections](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-22/book-review-the-reflective-teacher-a-review-and-some-reflections/): ‘The reflective teacher’ is a phrase that has been much in vogue in education circles for at least the past two decades. At the outset this may evoke a hazy image of a somewhat thoughtful teacher one might be happy to see teaching in our schools. The phrase became common currency sometime after the publication, in 1983, of Donald Schon’s The Reflective Practitioner. 
- [Reflection, Empathy and Action: Insights from Educational Spaces](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-22/reflection-empathy-and-action-insights-from-educational-spaces/): 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.
- [A Lost Port-City and Our Quest](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-22/a-lost-port-city-and-our-quest/): 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.
- [Learning Empathy](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-22/learning-empathy/): 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.
- [The Flow of Learning and Teaching: Through Forty Years as a Teacher](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-22/the-flow-of-learning-and-teaching-through-forty-years-as-a-teacher/): 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.
- [Attention is the Culmination of Intelligence](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-22/attention-is-the-culmination-of-intelligence/): 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.
- [How Children See](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-22/how-children-see/): 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.
- [For Thinking Together](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-22/for-thinking-together/): 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.
- [Your Kind Attention Please](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-22/your-kind-attention-please/): 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.
- [Awakening to the Absurd](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-22/awakening-to-the-absurd/): 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.
- [Democracy in School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-22/democracy-in-school/): 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.
- [Nature Education at Marudam](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-22/nature-education-at-marudam/): 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.
- [A Woman, A Horse and A Degraded Stretch of Land: My Journey with Beejom Farm](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-22/a-woman-a-horse-and-a-degraded-stretch-of-land-my-journey-with-beejom-farm/): 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.
- [Meeting the Challenge: Bringing Krishnamurti's Teachings into the Junior School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-22/meeting-the-challenge-bringing-krishnamurti-s-teachings-into-the-junior-school/): 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.
- [Attention and the Traffic of Thought](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-22/attention-and-the-traffic-of-thought/): 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.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-22/editorial-issue-22/): 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.
- [Attention](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-22/attention/): 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.
- [Book Review - School without Fear: Dialogues with Teachers and Parent](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/book-review-school-without-fear-dialogues-with-teachers-and-parent/): 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.
- [Book Review - Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/book-review-education-for-judgment-the-artistry-of-discussion-leadership/): 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.
- [The Vidya Vanam Story](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/the-vidya-vanam-story/): 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.
- [The Montessori Approach and a Krishnamurti School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/the-montessori-approach-and-a-krishnamurti-school/): 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.
- [It Takes a Village: Shining a Light on the School-Home Partnership](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/partners-in-self-understanding-2/): 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.
- [Partners in Self-Understanding](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/partners-in-self-understanding/): 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.
- [The Revolution Now](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/the-revolution-now/): 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.
- [Opening our Senses: Guided Exercises in Nature Awareness](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/opening-our-senses-guided-exercises-in-nature-awarenes/): 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.
- [What Prevents Dialogue?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/what-prevents-dialogue/): 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.
- [Learning with Wonder: Environmental Studies for the Young](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/learning-with-wonder-environmental-studies-for-the-young/): 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.
- [The Vital Learning Ground](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/the-vital-learning-ground/): 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.
- [Meditation](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/meditation/): 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.
- [Pulls and Pushes: On Pressure](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/pulls-and-pushes-on-pressure/): 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.
- [Beauty](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/beauty/): 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.
- [What is Confidence?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/what-is-confidence/): 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.
- [Examining Adoption of Technology in Schools](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/examining-adoption-of-technology-in-schools/): 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.
- [On the Religious in Education](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/on-the-religious-in-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.
- [Aadona Kallaatta (Tossing Five Stones) Traditional Games at The Valley](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/aadona-kallaatta-tossing-five-stones-traditional-games-at-the-valley/): 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.
- [The Context of our Lives](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/the-context-of-our-lives/): 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.
- [Approaching Adulthood](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/approaching-adulthood/): My son is fifteen years old. We have both quick and deep conversations as a way of sharing what is uppermost in our minds. In the past, our exchanges have generally orbited around the four h’s—health, hygiene, homework and happiness. 
- [What do I Learn when I Teach History?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/what-do-i-learn-when-i-teach-history/): 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.
- [Self and the Other](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/self-and-the-other/): 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.
- [Examining Fear: The Daily Life of School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/examining-fear-the-daily-life-of-school/): 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.
- [Vignettes of Conversations](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/vignettes-of-conversations/): 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.
- [A Tree, A Flower, A Fly and A Centipede: A Meditation on Science, Poetry and Spirituality](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/a-tree-a-flower-a-fly-and-a-centipede-a-meditation-on-science-poetry-and-spirituality/): 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.
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/editorial-issue-21/): 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.
- [Confidence](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21/confidence/): 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.
- [Book Review Section](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/book-review-section/): 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.
- [The Religious Spirit and the Scientific Spirit](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/the-religious-spirit-and-the-scientific-spirit/): In May 1959 the British writer, scientist and civil servant, C. P. Snow delivered the Rede Lecture at the University of Cambridge which he titled ‘The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution’.
- [An Experiment with Order and Freedom in the Classroom](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/an-experiment-with-order-and-freedom-in-the-classroom/): 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.
- [Bringing Out the Good in Good Practice](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/bringing-out-the-good-in-good-practice/): 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.
- [Centres for Excellence](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/centres-for-excellence/): 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.
- [An Excellent Enigma](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/an-excellent-enigma/): 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.
- [The Unpursued Excellence](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/the-unpursued-excellence/): 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.
- [An Ode to the Valley of Unnamed Wish Plants](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/an-ode-to-the-valley-of-unnamed-wish-plants/): 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.
- [On Excellence](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/on-excellence/): 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.
- [The End is Where We Start From](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/the-end-is-where-we-start-from/): 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.
- [Strangely Like Gulag](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/strangely-like-gulag/): 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.
- [The Role of Nature in Teaching Values](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/the-role-of-nature-in-teaching-values/): 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.
- [Exploring Uncharted Territory in the Classroom](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/exploring-uncharted-territory-in-the-classroom/): 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.
- [Examining Conflict, Outer and Inner](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/examining-conflict-outer-and-inner/): 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.
- [Witnessing Conflict](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/witnessing-conflict/): 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](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/to-take-the-arduous-path/): 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.
- [On Conflict](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/on-conflict/): 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.
- [Patchwork Stories](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/patchwork-stories/): 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.
- [The Spirit of the Game](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/the-spirit-of-the-game/): 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.
- [Uncovering Conditioning](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20/uncovering-conditioning/): 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.
- [Sholai School in 2025](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/sholai-school-2025/): Editors’ note: Sholai School, in Tamil Nadu, is an education centre inspired by Krishnamurti’s philosophy. In this interview, Alok Mathur queries its founder, Brian Jenkins, on the origins of the centre and different facets of its educational intent and practices. When, where and how did Sholai Scho
- [Between the River and the Trees: An Ode to a College by the Riverside](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/between-river-and-trees-college-riverside/): Transition from school to college One fine day, a group of students with fresh faces but a little bewildered, clearly anxious, were sitting in an open classroom near the riverside area. Perhaps they were the newly admitted students. They became quiet, very quiet, simply watching the river in front.
- [The Process of a Neighbourhood Study: An Interdisciplinary Approach](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/neighbourhood-study-interdisciplinary-approach/): Background and intent As schoolteachers we are often looking to create learning contexts that draw from real world situations, not just simulations of them, or even abstract learning left to extrapolation with examples in the classroom. It therefore makes sense to have flexible institutional structu
- [Project-Based Learning: Building Ideas Together](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/project-based-learning-building-ideas/): Coming from a research background to teaching, I find one of the most notable aspects of Pathashaala to be its emphasis on project-based learning— where students gain hands-on experience with academic concepts, making learning a deeply immersive process.
- [Explorations into Learning and Living](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/explorations-into-learning-and-living/): What enables learning? When there is a natural rhythm or flow to life there may be a conducive environment for learning. What then is a natural rhythm in the context of living our daily lives? A feeling of oneness, perhaps, along with a careful listening to the cues and subtle directions that nature
- [A Tryst with the Banyan Tree](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/tryst-with-banyan-tree/): Through ignorance I once imagined I was bound. But I am pure awareness. I live beyond all distinctions, In unbroken meditation. Indeed I am neither bound, nor free.
- [On Wholeness](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/on-wholeness-venkatesh-onkar/): There is a longing to be whole, to be at rest inwardly, free of contradiction. But is this wholeness one more idea in the flow of our consciousness, an idea which actually keeps us fixed in the loop of restless searching for wholeness? I cannot positively say what wholeness might mean. But I do have
- [The Whole is Never Really an Addition of Parts](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/whole-never-addition-of-parts/): The year’s at the spring, And day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The hill-side’s dew-pearl’d; The lark’s on the wing; The snail’s on the thorn; God’s in His heaven– All’s right with the world!
- [To Be Whole](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/to-be-whole-kamala-mukunda/): Ifind myself often torn between two or more alternatives. Whether to tell a person what I think or not, whether to work or read a book or check my mail, whether to take a bus or a taxi. The feeling is one of being fragmented, as if there are multiple ‘selves’ putting forward their case for what shou
- [To Be Whole](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/to-be-whole-alok-mathur/): To be whole, I believe, is a fundamental yearning in each of us. What does this mean? And how does this urge arise and seek expression in my life? What does this have to do with education, with learning? I briefly explore these questions.
- [The Wholeness of Things](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/the-wholeness-of-things/): In his 1964 lecture titled ‘The Relation of Physics to other Sciences’, the physicist Richard Feynman speaks about the connectedness of everything. A poet once said, “The whole universe is in a glass of wine.” We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be unde
- [Paper planes, name blunders and life lessons: Building relationships with middle schoolers](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/paper-planes-name-blunders-and-life-lessons-building-relationships-with-middle-schoolers/): Over the past six years, I’ve had the joy (and occasional experience of chaos) of working closely with middle school students. It’s a rollercoaster phase in their lives—packed with changes, emotions, and moments of self-discovery. It is also one of the most fascinating chapters in these children’s development. I often find myself reflecting on how much relationships shape the growth and self-confidence of children. Children have an inherent need to feel connected. Adults, therefore, need to ensure that the relationships they form are healthy and authentic. When I first started teaching, I knew that relationships mattered—but I had no idea […]
- [What Are We Doing To Our Children?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/what-are-we-doing-to-our-children/): Parenting is one of the most significant responsibilities that a person can take on. It involves raising another human being with the right value systems so that the child can become a responsible individual in society. Education plays a major role in this upbringing, both at school and college. Mos
- [The Obsessive Pursuit of Success](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/the-obsessive-pursuit-of-success/): When the Indian men’s team won the T20 cricket World Cup in June 2024, there was a great outpouring of emotion from Indian players and fans alike. There was the joy following a hard-earned triumph, obviously, but there was also the relief that India had finally won a global trophy after coming close
- [Teaching History and Civics in Challenging Times](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/teaching-history-civics-challenging-times/): As teachers and house parents, we observe on a daily basis words and actions that indicate sensitivity, intelligence, fellowship, kindness, conviviality, respect, humour, responsibility, creativity, thoughtfulness and so on. At the same time, we observe insensitivity, rudeness, arrogance, harassment
- [Are We Slaves to Language?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/are-we-slaves-to-language/): When we see how little we can express, it is a wonder that any man ever takes up a pen a second time.
- [On Learning a Language](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/on-learning-a-language/): How do we describe a language? A language, as it is often characterized, is a means for communication. But does it really stop there? To me, a language we know and speak is also several layers of fragrant memories packed together. Is it not the first endearment we heard and still remember after seve
- [Growth Mindset in a Math Culture](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/growth-mindset-math-culture/): Ibegin the school year with my third graders by spending time developing their growth mindset, creating a culture around math where mistakes are celebrated, and where struggle and hard work are valued over getting things ‘right’. Once this has been established, then I know we will go far with our ma
- [Visible Thinking: Systems Thinking as a Teaching Strategy](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/visible-thinking-systems-thinking/): If you do not know yourself, your unconscious as well as your conscious states, all your inquiry will be twisted, given a bias. You will have no foundation for thinking which is rational, clear, logical, sane. Your thinking will be according to a certain pattern, formula, or set of ideas
- [Inclusive Spaces and an Alternative Curriculum: Practising Inclusive Education at Rajghat](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/inclusive-spaces-alternative-curriculum/): Adecade ago, when I stepped into Rajghat Besant School, I was awestruck by the vastness of the space. There was something very alluring about the campus. As I began my journey in teaching, many questions have arisen in my mind related to the ambience of the place. I often used to ask myself—what tho
- [You Don't Need All The Answers!: What it Means to Learn with Children](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/you-dont-need-all-the-answers/): I have often wondered what it truly means to learn with children: if it is about absorbing their experiences and delighting in the candour of their unfiltered utterances, if it is being open to the newness of their ideas, if it is about being fully present in their journeys, or if it is something a l
- [Flow of Meaning: Our House is in Disorder](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/flow-of-meaning-our-house-is-in-disorder/): Anyone who is aware of the state of the world will recognize that we are at a point in human history where we are facing unprecedented challenges. Wars are raging, some of which are genocidal in nature. The threat of nuclear war has become imminent with the advent of authoritarian regimes all over t
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/editorial-issue-28/): Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold … WB Yeats: The Second Coming
- [EDUCATING TO BE WHOLE](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28/educating-to-be-whole/): How would you, if you had a son here or a daughter, you want to educate them, or bring about a holistic life? You’ve got so many students here, capable, intelligent—at least some of them—and would you bring about, through what means, through what kind of attitude, what kind of verbal explanation, would you go through to educate a holistic way of living? That is what I am proposing. I mean by ‘holistic’ whole, unbroken, not splintered up, not fragmented, as most of our lives are. So, my question is, if I may put it to you: what would you […]
- [Book Review: Face to Face and Side by Side](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/book-review-face-to-face-side-by-side/): Parenting, an essential human activity, has seen several rapid changes and resulted in varying trends which are influenced by current events, and these trends are becoming widespread due to increasing global connectivity. The Self Esteem Trap: Raisin...
- [Teacher-Student Relatedness](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/teacher-student-relatedness/): deeply is quite another matter. Sustaining ownership of the measurables is easier than sustaining ownership of intention. Good institutions work for shared ownership of intentions by many. Without individual questioning, there would be no movement in...
- [Gatherings: A Teacher's Reflections](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/gatherings-teachers-reflections/): Not long after I came to Rishi Valley as a teacher, we hosted a public Gathering. It was during the Diwali vacation and the weather was chill and wet. It had to be held during the break so that participants could be accommodated in the student hostel...
- [Navigating Uncertainties](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/navigating-uncertainties/): Change, the oft-overused cliché, is as real as birth and death. One may romanticize it, anticipate it, welcome it, dread it, fear it or go through all of these emotions at various points in time. As an educator, an adult, a human being struggling to ...
- [To Cooperate is a Challenge When There is an Urge to Win](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/cooperate-challenge-urge-to-win/): One can bring cooperation into a game, but it is very difficult to take competition out of it. An important aspect of playing sports has always been the tendency to compare two individuals, two teams, who wins against whom and who loses against whom....
- [What do I Teach when I Teach History?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/what-do-i-teach-when-i-teach-history/): “To learn not to repeat the mistakes of the past.” “To understand human behaviour.” “To understand the present, why things are the way they are.”...
- [What Art Gives to the Curriculum*](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/what-art-gives-to-curriculum/): In a bustling breakfast meeting for teachers from different schools, a few of them sit down as they greet unfamiliar faces and discuss familiar narratives. “What activities do you have in your school?” comes a question. The writers (of this article) ...
- [Living with Krishnamurti's Teachings](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/living-with-krishnamurtis-teachings/): As a former student of Rishi Valley School who has long been moved by Krishnamurti’s teachings, I was invited by one of the editors of this journal to write something about the impact of these teachings on my life. Without a moment’s hesitation, I po...
- [Moving and Learning](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/moving-and-learning/): Recently a noted psychologist, Dr Arati Rajaratnam, visited our school to address the parents of the junior school children. The topic was ‘A Moving Child is a Learning Child’, in which she discussed how physical movement is important for the cogniti...
- [What is it to care?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/what-is-it-to-care-viju-jaithirtha/): There are certain questions where the answers cannot be a rehash of memory and experience. Is an ‘answer’ even required? The key word here, ‘care’, touches the confines of my brain like bubbles in those ancient screen savers! They touch the edges, di...
- [Can I be the Fire and not the Frying Pan?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/fire-not-frying-pan-care/): 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...
- [Care-raising Times!](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/care-raising-times/): For as long as I can remember, I have wanted my students to care about things. Care about your classmates, about your teachers, about the spaces at school, about the spiders and the snakes, the trees. As they grew older, I would want them to care abo...
- [Tapestry of Care](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/tapestry-of-care/): How did the chicken cross the road? While driving down a highway, I saw a mother hen expertly clucking her way across the road with her brood of chicken under her wings. It takes me a while to cross a road. She did it with such care and such confiden...
- [What is it to care?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/what-is-it-to-care-alok-mathur/): In asking the question, ‘what is it to care?’, I also wonder what it means ‘to be cared for?’ We readily recognize, for instance, that children need to be cared for, as do our aging parents. Children need adults who are engaged and responsive, looking out for their physical, emotional, and mental well-being, perhaps on occasion worrying about them, even at times scolding them for something or the other.
- [What is care?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/what-is-care-venkatesh-onkar/): The waking day seems full of emotional reactivity. We react to others’ opinions on a multitude of issues—political, religious, ecological, aesthetic, occupational. This reactivity can keep us happily (or unhappily) occupied for much of the day. Then ...
- [A Living and Learning Space: Approaches to Education in a Krishnamurti School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/living-and-learning-space-krishnamurti-school-2/): Editors’ Note: This is the second part of a longer essay; the first part of the essay was reprinted in the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools Vol 26, 2023. This essay was originally published in ‘Other Education: The Journal of Educational Alternatives’...
- [Empathetic Listening](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/empathetic-listening/): This article is based on the work of Carl Rogers. I first encountered him when I trained to be a counsellor and he was truly inspirational. I found a lot of resonance between what he was saying and what Krishnamurti was pointing to regarding relation...
- [What is a Healthy Mind?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/what-is-a-healthy-mind/): What do we mean by a healthy mind? It may help if we use the analogy of a healthy body. Presumably, it is one that has strength and stamina to the right degree; a body that can deal with physical challenges; a body that can deal with infections. Perh...
- [Environmental Management: Tending a Deep Gash with a Too-tiny Band Aid?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/environmental-management-deep-gash-band-aid/): Knowing is the key to caring, and with caring there is hope that people will be motivated to take positive actions. They might not care even if they know, but they can’t care if they are unaware.1...
- [Climate Action: The Personal and Political](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/climate-action-personal-and-political/): In October 2023, I was invited to speak at the KFI Teachers’ Conference being held in Chennai, at The School KFI, my alma mater. I was excited to both attend the conference and share my experience of working in the field of climate change. The School...
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/editorial-journal-27/): The twenty seventh issue of the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools is in your hands. Handle it with care, read and glean what you will, and do share it with others!  Why do we say this?  If you look through the titles of the articles in the contents page— whether you are a teacher, a parent, a student, or a concerned citizen with questions about education—there is something for each one here.  As we were putting together this Journal, someone asked: Is there any theme running across these articles?
- [LIFE IS LIKE A RIVER](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27/life-is-like-a-river/): Have you not noticed that if you sit quietly on the banks of the river you hear its song—the lapping of the water, the sound of the current going by? There is always a sense of movement, an extraordinary movement towards the wider and the deeper. But in the little pool there is no movement at all, its water is stagnant. And if you observe you will see that this is what most of us want: little stagnant pools of existence away from life.
- [Book Review: How Mistakes Can Work for You!](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/book-review-how-mistakes-can-work-for-you-sunanda-ali/): All of us remember in excruciating detail how humiliating it was to make mistakes as students. Mistakes, usually in English and mathematics, were often received with laughter (loud or stifled) or condescension from our peers. We were given the 'correct answers' with the unspoken conviction...
- [Teacher-student Relationships as a Factor of Socialization: Some Ruminations from a Small School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/teacher-student-relationships-socialization-v-arun/): Schools perhaps play the most significant role in the process of socializing a young person in their formative years. The other key players are obviously the family and society itself. As a teacher I am wondering about the role of socialization in schools. Within school too there are different playe...
- [On Being A Young Teacher](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/on-being-a-young-teacher-manisha-koppala/): The day I turned 25, I found myself in a classroom full of ninth graders waiting to meet their new English teacher. As soon as the principal introduced me to them and stepped out, one enthusiastic voice shouted, "Akka we thought you would be at least 60. But you're not!" That very mom...
- [Connecting to Self and the World in the Time of COVID](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/connecting-to-self-and-world-time-of-covid-pathashaala/): Preamble  "How do we understand our connection with our neighbourhood?" This was the question that prompted the Longitudinal Survey (LS) process that was initiated and conducted by Classes 9 and 11 of Pathashaala in 2014, 2015 and 2019. The effort was not linked directly to any specific su...
- [An Immersive Experience in Rural Rajasthan: Unforeseen Learnings](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/an-immersive-experience-rural-rajasthan-sanjay-mathur/): A school counsellor asks children of two different classes at Rajghat Besant School to describe in one word their emotions upon returning from a field trip. At the end of the monsoon, Class 9 had gone to Uttarakhand, enjoying the natural beauty, hiking, and physical challenges. They respond with wor...
- [Performance in School: A Critical Examination](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/performance-in-school-critical-examination-prashanth-narasimhan/): The single major tool in today's world that has come to determine how we (adolescents and adults) understand others as well as ourselves is social media. In this space, like and follow seem to matter at least as much as, if not more than, confide and support; such is the power of these online p...
- [Honesty, Trust and Cooperation](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/honesty-trust-and-cooperation-jenner-j-prince/): Here is a bold claim that is ripe for a healthy discourse: "Everybody lies, essentially about everything. Either verbally or through their actions. Either directly or by omission." Lies, deceit, dishonesty and deception come in an assortment of different skins. Honesty as a virtue is a rar...
- [Breathing Life into the Classroom](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/breathing-life-into-the-classroom-sangeetha-m/): The morning light creeps in gently into the classroom, warming and awakening the space for another new day. The grade one children slowly trickle in one after the other. Very soon, there is a fully charged room brimming with excitement, energy and laughter. While this may be an invigorating start to...
- [Walks with Mina](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/walks-with-mina-rajani-jooju/): In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks —John Muir
- [A Living and Learning Space: Approaches to Education in a Krishnamurti School](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/a-living-and-learning-space-vaishnavi-narayanan/): I have been a teacher for the past eighteen years, fifteen of which have been at a Krishnamurti School in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India at The School (Krishnamurti Foundation of India). When I chose to become a teacher, it was driven neither by an ambition to teach nor by the yearning to 'make a d...
- [Integrating Krishnamurti’s Teachings with the Syllabus: My Experiments in Economics and Business Studies Classes](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/integrating-krishnamurtis-teachings-syllabus-meena-g/): Children today appear very different from what we were at their age. I once happened to see a video of J Krishnamurti addressing a group of young children. The children were neatly dressed, polite, paid keen attention to Krishnaji's talk and were respectful towards him. A section of them active...
- [The Role of Imagination in Perception](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/the-role-of-imagination-in-perception-nina-mecagni/): The land on which Oak Grove school is situated is a numinous place to learn, work and educate future generations. A place we are invited to inhabit for the day and participate in creating and accessing the common ground of real-time awareness with students. In all honesty, asking young students to d...
- [W(hole)istic Education: Thinking the Psychic Revolution in Question](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/wholistic-education-psychic-revolution-lionel-claris/): Two years ago, I contributed to a series of emails over several weeks amongst 150 Krishnamurti 'educators' around the world. This online 'dialogue' had been ignited by the question of what K would call his schools today. After reading it all I felt compelled to offer a different ...
- [Child-centred Education: Uncovering Assumptions](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/child-centred-education-uncovering-assumptions/): Several theories about education are available for the seeker. The teachers at Centre for Learning, Bangalore, felt the need to share their ruminations on, and experiments with, some educational discourses through webinars online. The article below began with a two-hour conversation among all the CF...
- [The Hungry Tide and the Country Within](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/the-hungry-tide-and-the-country-within-mallika-asirvatham/): Who, indeed, are we? Where do we belong? And as I listened to the sounds of those syllables, it was as if I was hearing the deepest uncertainties of my heart being spoken to the rivers and the tides. Who was I? Where did I belong? In Kolkata or in the tide country? In India or across the border? In ...
- [Studying and Teaching History with my Students: Reflections on my experiences](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/studying-teaching-history-with-students-parikshit-sharma/): I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am —Paulo Freire
- [A Kaleidoscope of Reflections](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/a-kaleidoscope-of-reflections-indus-chadha/): Quite serendipitously, just after I returned from a wonderful fellowship at Teachers College, Columbia University, I fleetingly met an editor of this journal at the Valley School. I vividly remembered an insightful session with him that inspired me to cultivate a teaching portfolio and keep a journa...
- [Challenges and Opportunities at a Young KFI School: Pathashaala](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/challenges-opportunities-young-kfi-school-pathashaala/): Under very special circumstances a small school emerged on a large campus, about 85 km away from Chennai, in Kancheepuram district (now Chengalpattu district). On 19 August 2010, Pathashaala started with three teachers and fourteen children in classes 5 to 7. Two of the teachers, Ramesh and Uma, mov...
- [On Founding a New School: Pointers from Krishnamurti](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/on-founding-a-new-school-gianni-garubo/): A new school
- [Editorial](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/editorial-journal-26/): 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...
- [Knowledge is not Wisdom](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26/knowledge-is-not-wisdom/): In our search for knowledge, in our acquisitive desires, we are losing love, we are blunting the feeling for beauty, the sensitivity to cruelty; we are becoming more and more specialized and less and less integrated. Wisdom cannot be replaced by knowledge, and no amount of explanation, no accumulation of facts, will free man from suffering. Knowledge is necessary, science has its place; but if the mind and heart are suffocated by knowledge, and if the cause of suffering is explained away, life becomes vain and meaningless….
- [On Goodness](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/on-goodness-j-krishnamurti/): On Goodness J KRISHNAMURTI
- [Dharma and Svadharma in the Teachings of J Krishnamurti](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/dharma-and-svadharma-in-the-teachings-of-j-krishnamurti/): One of the last things Krishnamurti said was, “Keep the teachings clean and look after the land,” a statement as remarkable for what it leaves out as it is for the two things he mentions expressly. No mention, for instance, of education or of that broad field he cultivated so carefully, and of whi...
- [An Education for Mankind](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/an-education-for-mankind-javier-gomez-rodriguez/): The world crisis The current state of the world is marked by a series of global challenges whose gravity turns them into veritable crises. These crises are not due to natural phenomena but are the direct result of human action. They are the outcome of our conflicted relationships with nature, wit...
- [Krishnamurti: The Uncharted Voyage](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/krishnamurti-the-uncharted-voyage-donal-creedon/): Ridiculous the waste sad time Stretching before and after. —TS Eliot, Burnt Norton
- [What is Krishnamurti Saying?: A Personal and Unending ‘Distillation’](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/what-is-krishnamurti-saying-david-skitt/): Over the years as one of the KFT editors, I have naturally read or listened to a great deal of K material, though very far from anything like the total of it—estimated as equal to four hundred average-sized books—only half of which is available electronically. Any attempt to summarise this massive...
- [On Sorrow](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/on-sorrow-j-krishnamurti/): W e are concerned with the whole existence of man and whether a human being can ever be free from his travail, his efforts, his anxieties, violence and brutality, and whether there is an end to sorrow. Why have human beings, throughout the ages, sustained and put up with suffering? Can there be a...
- [“I Want to Know What Truth Is”: Lessons Learnt from Krishnaji](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/i-want-to-know-what-truth-is-kiran-khalap/): It was 1975. I was seventeen years old. I stood before our family deity, Goddess Shantadurga, in the inner sanctum of her temple in Dhargal, Goa, our family home, along with my Dad. The priest placed four petals on each shoulder and arm of the heartbreakingly beautiful idol carved in black stone,...
- [Working with Insights from Krishnamurti: Reflections of a ‘Rolling Stone’](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/working-with-insights-from-krishnamurti-ananthapadmanabhan/): In 2016, I was at The School to give a talk at the annual teachers’ conference of the Krishnamurti schools. My talk was scheduled after the morning tea break. When I arrived, it was tea time. I caught up with many people whom I had not seen in some time. The feelings were warm and affectionate. Th...
- [The Sweep of History … and Krishnamurti’s Challenge](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/the-sweep-of-history-and-krishnamurtis-challenge/): My introduction to Krishnamurti came while I was at art school studying photography in the late 1960s. This was a wonderful time to be young; there was a feeling that everyone should re-invent themselves, and the world at large. It was OK to make mistakes but not to follow in other people’s footst...
- [Listening, Looking, Learning](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/listening-looking-learning-j-krishnamurti/): If one listens…without effort, with clarity, then I think that very listening is the vehicle of action. You do not have to do anything about it - the very act of listening is action. It is like seeing something, it is like looking at a flower. We never actually look at a flower, because we look ...
- [A Philosopher of the Self*](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/a-philosopher-of-the-self-raymond-martin/): Is it possible to live without relying psychologically on authority—either on external authority or even on the authority of one’s own past experience? For Jiddu Krishnamurti that, suitably qualified, is the key question. His answer is that it is possible and that only in this way can one connect ...
- [Don’t Look at Me! Test It Out!](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/dont-look-at-me-test-it-out-thomas-metzinger/): For the last two decades I have taught as a professor of philosophy at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, Germany. Throughout my academic career I have mostly specialized in the area of analytical philosophy of mind and cognitive science. This has mainly involved working on theories of consc...
- [Why I Value Krishnamurti’s Teachings](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/why-i-value-krishnamurtis-teachings-hillary-rodrigues/): Although I am a professor of Religious Studies, my fondness for Krishnamurti’s teachings is not solely academic. About forty years ago, I worked with passion at a Krishnamurti school in Canada, before going on to a career in academia, during which I have written books and articles on Krishnamurti’...
- [The Core of the Teachings](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/the-core-of-the-teachings/): W hen asked in 1974 by his biographer, Mary Lutyens, to define his teachings Krishnamurti wrote the following: The core of Krishnamurti’s teaching is contained in the statement he made in 1929 when he said Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed...
- [The Sacred and the Everyday](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/the-sacred-and-the-everyday-meenakshi-thapan/): I first encountered Krishnamurti when I was eighteen years old, studying Psychology at Delhi University. I was a young undergraduate, in search of another way of life, filled with confusion and yearning to be part of ‘something else’ which might help me understand what life is all about. I was clue...
- [Krishnamurti, Education and Unlearning](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/krishnamurti-education-and-unlearning-tim-boyd/): This brief article is the product of a perspective that incorporates a number of streams through which I have experienced Krishnamurti’s message—as a beneficiary of Krishnamurti’s life and teachings, a member, now President, of the Theosophical Society, and one who has recently participated in the...
- [Pedagogy of Freedom](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/pedagogy-of-freedom-satish-kumar/): he word ‘education’ is derived from Latin educare which means ‘to bring up’, ’to bring forth’ or ‘to draw out’. Thus, education doesn’t mean teaching, or schooling or giving of knowledge or even acquisition of knowledge. Education simply means the development of qualities which are already presen...
- [On Nature](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/on-nature-j-krishnamurti/): W hen you look around you, not so much in the human world as in nature, in the heavens, you see an extraordinary sense of order, balance, and harmony. Every tree and flower has its own order, its own beauty; every hilltop and every valley has a sense of its own rhythm and stability. Though man tr...
- [My Journey with Krishnamurti and the Teachings](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/my-journey-with-krishnamurti-and-the-teachings/): Meeting Krishnamurti I was born in the French part of Switzerland in a small village where my father was a mountain guide. There was no radio in our village, and the only means of communication was a common telephone for the entire village. My parents brought me up with no expectations to conform...
- [Krishnamurti’s Teachings Changed My Life](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/krishnamurtis-teachings-changed-my-life-friedrich-grohe/): I was privileged to have met Krishnamurti during the latter phase of my life; but even if I hadn’t, my attitude toward the teachings would be the same. In fact, it was coming upon the teachings that made the bigger impression on me. I was fascinated from the first book I read, and am still fascinat...
- [Happy is the Man Who is Nothing](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/happy-is-the-man-who-is-nothing/): You must have a clear mind, a free untethered mind; this is essential, you cannot have a clear, penetrating mind if there is fear of any sort. Fear clogs the mind. If the mind does not face its own self-created problems, it is not a clear, deep mind. To face its own peculiarities, to be aware of...
- [Krishnamurti and Tradition: Some Reflections on the Teachings of Krishnamurti](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/krishnamurti-and-tradition-ravi-ravindra/): In 1981 during a walk in Ojai, Krishnamurti turned to me and said, “What do you think is wrong with India?” By that time, I had learned the futility of trying to argue with him; I was more interested in his insights which emerged from a level of clarity far subtler than mine. I kept silent and loo...
- [My Association with Krishnamurti and the Impact of his Teachings](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/my-association-with-krishnamurti-samdhong-rinpoche/): Question: Rinpocheji, when and how did you first hear about Krishnamurti and his teaching? When did you first meet him in person?
- [Krishnamurti Fascinates Students of Vedanta](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/krishnamurti-fascinates-students-of-vedanta/): In the mid-1980s, I was deeply drawn to self-enquiry in the form of the exploration Who am I? as found in the literature of Shri Ramana Maharshi. After a few years, however, I felt I was hitting a blank wall where a lot of my intellectual unrest remained unanswered. It was then that the teachings ...
- [“The Inner Always Overcomes the Outer”*: Editorial Essay](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/the-inner-always-overcomes-the-outer-editorial-essay/): The inner always overcomes the outer”* Editorial Essay
- [What Do You Mean by Karma?](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25/what-do-you-mean-by-karma/): What Do You Mean by Karma? J KRISHNAMURTI
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- [About the Journal of the Krishnamurti Schools](https://journal.kfionline.org/about/): The Journal of the Krishnamurti Schools has been in existence since 1995. It began with the intention of providing a forum for the teachers of Krishnamurti schools all over the world to share their educational experiences and insights. Over the years, keeping the same primary intention, the Journal has expanded in terms of both contributors and readers. There has long been a divide between those who teach, and those who research and write about school education. Thus when a teacher can find the time to reflect and record his or her own discoveries, it has a special significance and value. […]
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- [Issue 28 || 2025](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-28-2025-2/): Current Issue Issue 28 || 2025 Living in the twenty-first century, one often feels that we have spiralled out of control. Yet, the human spirit is indomitable. It strives to make sense of that very chaos which whirls the world around. This is the spirit which seems to underpin many of the articles in this current Journal, whether one is talking about life or education or both. In contrast to this image of a storm which seems to uproot us all the time, there is also the metaphor of a river which flows along steadily.  EDUCATING TO BE WHOLE Written […]
- [Issue 27 || 2024](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-27-2024-2/): As we were putting together this Journal, someone asked: Is there any theme running across these articles? If you glance across many of the articles, you will find the recurrence, in one way or another, of a central notion—care. As editors, we had decided to write our own brief ruminations around this question: what is care? Unexpectedly, we found that many other articles too echoed the idea of ‘care’, at many levels, and in varied contexts. LIFE IS LIKE A RIVER Written by J.Krishnamurti Have you not noticed that if you sit quietly on the banks of the river you […]
- [Issue 26 || 2023](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-26-2023/): 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.  Knowledge is not Wisdom Written by J.Krishnamurti In our search for knowledge, in our acquisitive desires, we are losing love, we are blunting the feeling for beauty, the sensitivity to cruelty; we are becoming more and more specialized and less and less integrated. Wisdom cannot be replaced by knowledge, and no amount of explanation, no […]
- [Issue 25 || 2021](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-25-2021/): Note on the Special Issue: The Journal of the Krishnamurti Schools has been in existence since 1997. It began with the intention of providing a forum for the teachers of Krishnamurti schools all over the world to share their experiences and insights in education. In the twenty-four volumes published thus far it has also had occasional contributions from other educationists, philosophers, anthropologists and artistes. This twenty-fifth volume is a special issue that commemorates 125 years of Krishnamurti. Making a departure from our customary compilation of articles written by teachers and educators, largely from the Krishnamurti schools, for this issue we […]
- [Issue 24 || 2020](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-24-2020/): As I look over the past several issues of the Journal of the Krishnamurti Schools, it strikes me anew that there is a very consistent set of issues that the pieces in this publication tackle. The widest theme—the interrogation of human existence itself that Krishnamurti pursued with fierce compassion over several decades. Learning is Discipline Written by J. Krishnamurti When you look around you, not so much in the human world as in nature, in the heavens, you see an extraordinary sense of order, balance and harmony. Every tree and flower has its own order, its own beauty; every hilltop and […]
- [Issue 23 || 2019](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-23-2019/): As I packed my bag for the editors’ meeting this year, a friend bid me goodbye, saying, “It’s going to be a lot of work, so get some rest.” It struck me that while the hours are long and the computer screens blaze into the night during these meetings, the work is very enjoyable. Psychological Time Written by J. Krishnamurti Time is one of the most complex things to understand. It is fairly simple to understand it intellectually, but to see the meaning of it, to understand the nature of time, the significance of time, the depth of time, we […]
- [Issue 22 || 2018](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-22-2018/): The Earth, with its bounty of nature, has its own beauty. Human beings, having evolved relatively recently on this planet, have spread across the earth and bring in their wake great conflict and strife, amongst themselves and with nature. Attention Written by J.Krishnamurti Have you ever paid any attention to the ringing of the temple bells? Now, what do you listen to? To the notes, or to the silence between the notes? If there were no silence, would there be notes? And if you listened to the silence, would not the notes be more penetrating, of a different quality? But […]
- [Issue 21 || 2017](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-21-2017/): So, is it not important to find out why we are confused? Can anybody, except a very few, say that they are not confused politically, religiously, economically? Sirs, you have only to look around you. Every newspaper is shouting in confusion, reflecting the uncertainties, the pains, the anxieties, the impending wars; and the sane, thoughtful person, the earnest person who is trying to find a way out of this confusion surely has first to tackle himself. Confidence Written by J.Krishnamurti So, is it not important to find out why we are confused? Can anybody, except a very few, say that […]
- [Issue 20 || 2016](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-20-2016/): Goodness can flower only in freedom. It cannot bloom in the soil of persuasion in any form, nor under compulsion, nor is it the outcome of reward. It does not reveal itself when there is any kind of imitation or conformity, and naturally it cannot exist when there is fear. Goodness shows itself in behaviour and this behaviour is based on sensitivity. This goodness is expressed in action. Goodness Written by J.Krishnamurti Goodness can flower only in freedom. It cannot bloom in the soil of persuasion in any form, nor under compulsion, nor is it the outcome of reward. It […]
- [Issue 19 || 2015](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-19-2015/): ‘So, our problem is not so much the child, the boy or the girl, but the teacher, the educator, who needs educating much more than the pupil. And to educate the educator is far more difficult than to educate the child, because the educator is already set, fixed. He merely functions in a routine, because he is really not concerned with the thought process, with the cultivation of intelligence.’— Krishnamurti. Affection Written by J.Krishnamurti To continue with what we were saying in our previous letter, we were pointing out your responsibility to study, to learn and to act. Editorial Written By O.R. […]
- [Issue 18 || 2014](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-18-2014/): A year ago, in November 2012, the Journal editorial team was sitting around in Ahalyaji’s room, wrapping things up for the seventeenth issue. Letters to Schools: Volume One – 15 December 1978 Written by J.Krishnamurti In one of the past letters we said that total responsibility is love. Editorial 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. An Impersonal Responsibility Written by Rajesh Dalal How does one write about someone who, to begin with, was a total stranger and who, in less than […]
- [Issue 17 || 2013](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-17-2013/): Krishnamurti questioned the schools constantly about why they were producing mice instead of lions and gazelles. Education Written by J.Krishnamurti Question: What kind of education should my child have, in order to face this chaotic world? Editorial Written By P Ramesh Krishnamurti questioned the schools constantly about why they were producing mice instead of lions and gazelles. The Next Step Written by  Stephen Smith We are probably all familiar with Krishnamurti’s statement, ‘The first step is the last step’, but what preoccupies teachers on a daily basis is how they will approach a particular student; how they will make their […]
- [Issue 16 || 2012](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-16-2012/): Here we are with the sixteenth issue of the Journal. Run your eye over the titles on the contents page and you will get an impression that themes based on children, teaching and learning—core concerns in any journal of education—are surrounded by themes such as nature, space, spirit, touch, retreat and looking inward. How are these connected with education? That there is a vital link between all these themes and the educational enterprise is what I wish to show. On Enquiry Written by J.Krishnamurti I think there is a process of learning which is not related to wanting to be taught. Editorial Written By Alok Mathur Here we […]
- [Issue 15 || 2011](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-15-2011/): True to its eclectic character, this fifteenth issue of the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools has a collection of articles on diverse subjects and topics. Goodness cannot flower in the field of fear Written by J.Krishnamurti In all our schools the educator and those responsible for the students, whether in the classroom, on the playing field or in their rooms, have the responsibility to see that fear in any form does not arise. Editorial Written By P. Ramesh True to its eclectic character, this fifteenth issue of the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools has a collection of articles on diverse subjects and […]
- [Issue 14 || 2010](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-14-2010/): This is the fourteenth issue of the Journal and what started as an in-house exchange between the various Krishnamurti schools has, over the years, slowly and quietly found a wider audience. Learning about Oneself Written by J.Krishnamurti Questioner: Could you describe how you are aware that you are inattentive? Editorial Written By Viju Jaithirtha This is the fourteenth issue of the Journal and what started as an in-house exchange between the various Krishnamurti schools has, over the years, slowly and quietly found a wider audience. Krishnamurti and Deep Ecology Written by Radhika Herzberger Deep Ecology, a current philosophical movement initiated […]
- [Issue 13 || 2009](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-13-2009/): The thirteenth issue of the Journal is in your hands. With the advent of the teen years, we editors were not sure what to expect from our young Journal. Rebellion? Or maybe mood swings? Or loud, garish earrings? To our delight, this adolescent appears to be handling the transition smoothly. Issue thirteen of the Journal is in some ways a typical thirteen-year-old: a many-sided jewel, its faces flashing exuberance, reflectiveness, practicality and maturity. On Ambition: A Talk to Students Written by J.Krishnamurti We have heard people say, that without ambition, we cannot do anything. Editorial Written By Ahalya Chari, O. […]
- [Issue 12 || 2008](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-12-2008/): The world over, we lament the state of education. We might observe directly the plight of a generation of young people weighed down by the burden of seemingly meaningless academic curricula and indifferent teaching practices, alongside spiralling aspirations for securing the ‘good life’. Teachers or educators are human beings Written by J.Krishnamurti Teachers or educators are human beings. Their function is to help the student to learn not only this or that subject, but to understand the whole activity of learning; not only to gather information about various subjects, but primarily to be complete human beings. Editorial Written By Alok […]
- [Issue 11 || 2007](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-11-2007/): The truth of what he said is laid out before us every morning in the newspapers with their bland recordings of the explosions, vapourisations and acts of despoliation of Nature taking place daily world-wide. Though war and humanly wrought destruction of Nature have been endemic in history, the modern age has seen more destruction through wars than in the entire previous period of human history. On Behaviour Written by J.Krishnamurti One of the most difficult things in life is to find a way of behaviour that is not dictated by circumstances. Editorial Written By O. R. Rao …seeing all these […]
- [Issue 10 || 2006](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-10-2006/): A tree derives its strength from its roots, striking deep into the earth, giving it stability and sustenance. What is the significance of history in the education of the young? Written by J.Krishnamurti Question: What is the significance of history in the education of the young? Editorial Written By Ahalya Chari It all started with a feeling that the legacy that Krishnamurti had left us in the form of his vision of education was something precious that had to be conserved, explored and shared. Placing Krishnamurti in the Philosophy of Education Written by Dr. C. Seshadri Scholarly research into the […]
- [Issue 09 || 2005](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-9-2005/): 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. This common human predicament is naturally reflected in our role as educators–how we grapple with this division in ourselves and help children live a life that is not divided, broken up, in constant conflict. The interesting question is–what do we teach our children? Is it ‘only’ knowledge or, worse still, just information that we convey? We as teachers do take part (as midwives […]
- [Issue 08 || 2004](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-8-2004/): A tree derives its strength from its roots, striking deep into the earth, giving it stability and sustenance. On the Long Vision Written by J.Krishnamurti I think most of us know what is happening in the world—the threat of war, the nuclear bomb, the many tensions and conflicts that have brought about new crises. Editorial Written By Kamala V. Mukunda A tree derives its strength from its roots, striking deep into the earth, giving it stability and sustenance. On Nurtuting the Motivation to Learn: Outcome of a Group Discussion Written by Editors The question has often been asked of Krishnamurti […]
- [Issue 07 || 2003](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-7-2003/): To look at a flower or a marvellous cloud, you must have a clear, unspotted eye, an eye that has lived and seen a thousand experiences and yet is free of all experience; it is only then that you can see. Learning is Astonishingly Difficult Written by J.Krishnamurti To look at a flower or a marvellous cloud, you must have a clear, unspotted eye, an eye that has lived and seen a thousand experiences and yet is free of all experience; it is only then that you can see. Editorial Written By Jayashree Nambiar Is it possible for a human […]
- [Issue 06 || 2002](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-6-2002/): Issue 06 || 2002 This journal is now six years and six issues old. Started as an in-house publication of the Krishnamurti schools, it has begun to reach out to a wider readership: to parents, teachers, educational administrators and other individuals or institutions interested in the educational issues of our times. What is Meditation? Written by J.Krishnamurti How can the mind know if it has found what it calls the ultimate, the immeasurable, the nameless, the most sublime? Editorial Written By Alok Mathur This journal is now six years and six issues old. Started as an in-house publication of the […]
- [Issue 05 || 2001](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-5-2001/): Issue 05 || 2001 There is a churning in the world of education. Teachers, parents, administrators and policy-makers are being driven to question anew: ‘What are we doing with our children?’ ‘What values, dispositions and concerns are we creating in them?’ ‘What is the quality of relationships with peers and others that our children are imbibing?’ ‘What will be their relationship with the society and environment they are part of?’ ‘Will future generations be able to find wholesome responses to the many complex challenges of their times?’ These questions are not speculative or academic, but stem from sensitive observation of […]
- [Issue 04 || 2000](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-4-2000/): Issue 04 || 2000 The ground around is covered with dry leaves, and above, the birds twitter and hop among the bare branches. Art of working together Written by J.Krishnamurti Since education is the responsibility of the parents as well as of the teachers, we must learn the art of working together, and this is possible only when each one of us perceives what is true. Editorial Written By Editorial Team The ground around is covered with dry leaves, and above, the birds twitter and hop among the bare branches. The Arts of Listening, Looking and Learning Written by R. […]
- [Issue 03 || 1999](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-3-1999/): Issue 03 || 1999 There is much to ponder over in all this and in the philosophical questions raised in the initial essays. There are some that journey into the inner landscapes of Krishnamurit’s education philosophy and others that address contemporary issues in the light of the teachings.  Live not by intellect alone Written by J.Krishnamurti Live not by intellect alone; for that way leads to perversion, the mechanization of life. Editorial Written By Ahalya Chari The third volume of the Journal goes out to readers a few months earlier this time. Education and Indian Nationalism Written by Radhika Herzberger […]
- [Issue 02 || 1998](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-2-1998/): Issue 02 || 1998 Another widely prevalent experience that teachers shared lies in their commitment to more creative approaches to classroom teaching, approaches that promote processes of enquiry, investigation, discover and self-learning, often relating what is learnt in class to life around. There is also evident in the writings of an abiding concern for linking education to nature. We are happy that the Journal offers teachers a forum for articulating and sharing new insights. A Quiet Mind Written by J.Krishnamurti To understand anything, any human or scientific problem, what is important, what is essential? Editorial Written By Anantha Jyothi We […]
- [Issue 01 || 1997](https://journal.kfionline.org/issue-01-1997/): Issue 01 || 1997 As we are all aware J. Krishnamurti was not only a great seer but a wise educator, perhaps the most radical that this century has produced. Our True Vocation Written by J.Krishnamurti Is there any other way of living in which you and I can function in our true vocation? Editorial Written By Ahlya Chari As we are all aware J. Krishnamurti was not only a great seer but a wise educator, perhaps the most radical that this century has produced. The Three Great Arts of Education Written by G. Narayan Krishnamurti pointed out that there […]

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