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.
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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).
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Creating Books Without a Formula
Children in India traditionally grew up listening to stories.
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Krishnamurti’s Letters to His Schools: Introducing a New Edition
It is a great privilege to be involved in editing Krishnamurti’s works.
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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.
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Teaching Peace
As you mellow, the urge to compromise hits oftener, but latecomers continue to annoy me.
Emotions and Learning
The Brain Sciences have made dramatic progress in the last two decades.
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Exploring Fundamental Questions 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.
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Responsibility to the Other
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.
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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.
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Editorial
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.
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.
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).
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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.
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Leaves from a Teacher’s Journal
Teachers are busy people. Their work demands intense engagement with students, other adults, their subject, ways of communicating it, and much else.
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Krishnamurti on the Timetable
At the time, Andy was on a collision course with staff and in danger of being asked to leave Brockwood.
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Brockwood Park School: Staff Retreat
Teachers of a school are colleagues in a special sense of the word.
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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.
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Silent Looking: Exploring Perception with J. Krishnamurti
To discover anything you must look; and to look, your look must be silent.
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A Script for Self-Learning
Background of NachiketNachiket is one of the many educational centers of the Krishnamurti Foundation.
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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?
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Physical Inquiry: The Body as Means of Learning (Part Two)
As teachers in Krishnamurti Schools, we are concerned with enabling self-discovery and awareness.
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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.
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Editorial
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Observing the Universe: The Classroom in the Sky
Astronomy is probably the oldest of the sciences. It developed independently in many cultures.
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Healing Our Civilization’s Intellectual Schizophrenia
Krishnamurti’s teachings seem more deep existential therapy than systematic philosophy.
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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.