Innocent Prejudice
Eleven pairs of bright black eyes stare at me from eleven attentive faces, their pencils hovering over the page.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Editorial
A tree derives its strength from its roots, striking deep into the earth, giving it stability and sustenance.
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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Reporting on the Senior School Student
“Is this a report meeting that I see before me?”
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A Journey into Education: An interview
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.
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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.
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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.
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Making School Trips Meaningful
Just a few days before our last school trip, a friend of ours, an anthropology scholar, visited us at school.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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Creativity and Insight in Daily Life
This article is an exploration of creativity as well as the more elusive notion of insight.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sample Modules for Media Literacy: Module 2: Analyzing a Woman’s Magazine
Objective: a) To sensitise young readers, boys and girls, to the potent imagery in the magazine and become aware of its influences.
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Sample Modules for Media Literacy: Module 1: Television News
Objective: Creating a critical awareness of various aspects of television news.
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Media and Education
There is an urgent concern among educators about the pervasive role that the media plays in all our lives today.
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