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…
What is it to care? Read Post »
To write on this elusive word ‘care’, where do I begin? ‘Care’ sometimes sounds like a reproach, at other times an admonition. Better show care next time, take care, don’t you see that I care, and so on. Mostly we are put on the defensive. We are als…
Can I be the Fire and not the Frying Pan? Read Post »
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…
Care-raising Times! Read Post »
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…
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 o…
What is it to care? Read Post »
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 …
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’…
A Living and Learning Space: Approaches to Education in a Krishnamurti School Read Post »
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…
Empathetic Listening Read Post »
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…
What is a Healthy Mind? Read Post »
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…
Environmental Management: Tending a Deep Gash with a Too-tiny Band Aid? Read Post »
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…
Climate Action: The Personal and Political Read Post »
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? If you glance across many of the articles, you will find the recurrence, in one…
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.
My Introduction to J Krishnamurti’s Teachings Read Post »
Krishnamurti questioned the schools constantly about why they were producing mice instead of lions and gazelles.
One of the vexing questions in Krishnamurti’s teachings is how to become aware of the contents of our consciousness.
An Experiment in Self-Observation Read Post »
‘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.
Partial and Total Insight: Constructivism and Krishnamurti’s Pedagogy Read Post »
Excerpts from a talk given at the International Symposium on ‘Being Alive to Responsible Citizenship: J.
Oak Grove School: The Growth of a Learning Centre Read Post »
‘Is man a part of nature, or apart from nature?’ It seems paradoxical to ask such a question.
Can One Learn the Art of Living from Nature? Read Post »
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’.
Exploring a New Dimension to Learning Read Post »
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.
Krishnamurti and Deep Ecology Read Post »
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.
A Flame of Learning’ is not an easy book to read—but then few worthwhile things are easy.
Review of “A Flame of Learning”, J. Krishnamurti Read Post »
It is a great privilege to be involved in editing Krishnamurti’s works.
Krishnamurti’s Letters to His Schools: Introducing a New Edition Read Post »
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.
Placing Krishnamurti in the Philosophy of Education Read Post »
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.
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.
A New Initiative – The Centre for Teacher Learning Read Post »
To discover anything you must look; and to look, your look must be silent.
Silent Looking: Exploring Perception with J. Krishnamurti Read Post »
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.
What Makes a Teacher Read Post »
(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.
Issues in the Teaching of History: Lessons from Krishnamurti Read Post »
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.
Art, Creativity and All That Read Post »
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Introducing Books by Krishnamurti on life and learning Read Post »
Of the great Indian religious philosophers born in the nineteenth century, Krishnamurti was the youngest as well as the most radical.
Krishnamurti and the Modern Mind Read Post »
