The Alphabet of Literature
I don’t want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.
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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?
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.
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.
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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.
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Editorial
True to its eclectic character, this fifteenth issue of the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools has a collection of articles on diverse subjects and topics.
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.
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Learning in Kinship
Most children experience a sharp dichotomy between home and school.
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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.
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What are Children Learning from Us?
There are indeed many things that we consciously teach children, both at home and at school.
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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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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.
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Culture in One’s Life
As Indians, we honestly believe that culture is in our blood and that this gives us an edge over other nationalities.
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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.
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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.
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The Elegant Science of Life: Biology
Here is some recent, assorted news making headlines in the field of biology:
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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.
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Building a Cathedral: An Approach to Teaching Poetry
There is a parable of a passer by who encountered three workmen cutting stones on a vast building site.
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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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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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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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Cities and Cultures: New Approaches to the Curriculum
Rethinking the Social Studies Curriculum New ventures often begin with discontent.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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