Building Up and Coming Down
In the course of our lives, we seem to know things in two, rather different ways.
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‘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?
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The Next Step
We are probably all familiar with Krishnamurti’s statement, ‘The first step is the last step’, but what preoccupies teachers on a daily basisis how they will approach a particular student; how they will make theirteaching ‘not boring’; and whether they have the tools for the job, both interms of knowledge and psychological readiness.
Partial and Total Insight: Constructivism and Krishnamurti’s 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Knowledge and Dialogue in Education
Education and dialogue have gone together from the beginning.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Towards a Consciousness Curriculum
Consciousness is the primary datum of existence, of human existence, and perhaps of all existence.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Knowing and Being – The Two Aspects of Education
‘We teach what we know, but educate what we are’
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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.
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Aldous Huxley and Krishnamurti
The attempt to understand Krishnamurti takes us far and wide in the realm of 20th Century thought.
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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.
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