Editorial
Krishnamurti questioned the schools constantly about why they were producing mice instead of lions and gazelles.
Children’s Fears
Suppose you were to ask a young child, 13 years old, to write down her answer to the question: what are you afraid of?
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.
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.
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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Review of “A is for Ox: The Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Age”, Barry Sanders
There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look’d upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day …Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
This Matter of Intellectual Understanding
In recent conversations with friends where we were trying to understand each other as well as to enquire into deep questions of life, a frequent impediment would be the different meanings or connotations we ascribe to the words we use.
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Review of “Unweaving the Rainbow”, Richard Dawkins
“Keats complained that Newton had destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by explaining it.
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Review of “Resurgence”, Edited by Satish Kumar
Resurgence is a magazine published every two months from Cornwall, U.K.
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Review of “Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody For the Last 13,000 Years”, Jared Diamond
Is history only a study of what happened’ and when, and what happened next?
Review of “Prism: A Learning Journal”, Edited by Richard Laubly and Helen Schall
A New Journal Prism: A Learning journal is a publication of Prism Communication, a Paris-based language training association, edited by Richard Laubly and Helen Schall, 151, Rue du Fauborg- Poissonniere, 75009 Paris.
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Review of “Life’s Grandeur”, Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould is one of the most popular writers on science today.
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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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