My Introduction to J Krishnamurti’s Teachings
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.
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Dynamics of a Grand Finale: The End-of-Term Event at Brockwood Park
No one remembers why they called it the ‘Concert’.
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An Experiment in Self-Observation
One of the vexing questions in Krishnamurti’s teachings is how to become aware of the contents of our consciousness.
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Mushtifund School, Goa: The Story of How a Mainstream Traditional School Experimented with Change
The purpose of writing this article is not to project any story of achievement.
Oak Grove School: The Growth of a Learning Centre
Excerpts from a talk given at the International Symposium on ‘Being Alive to Responsible Citizenship: J.
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Learning to be a Teacher of History: Excerpts from the Journal of a Beginner
I joined Rajghat Besant School, Varanasi, in July 2009 as a resource person to teach Class XII students.
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A Love of Theatre: Interview with Gerard Bayle
The following is an interview with Gerard Bayle, a professional theatre actor who has been working with students in the UK and India for many years.
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Scribbles on a Blackboard: Travels to a Turkish Mathematics Village
An e-mail query in support of a Turkish Mathematics Village more than a year ago lead to a most illuminating, intellectually broadening and exciting experience at the annual Turkish Mathematics Summer School in the idyllic and sleepy but enchanting village of Sirince.
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Reading Children: A Perspective from Poetry
The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind Emily DickinsonEarly in my Literature course with students newly come into Class 11, I have given them these lines of poetry to consider: The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.
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Thinking about Art
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
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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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The Idea of Santiniketan: A Personal Understanding
One of our friends who comes from a nearby village reported that the first thing a new headmaster does to make his presence felt in a village, is to paint the school building and then expel a student! He told us the story when our own school building was being painted at the time of the joining of a new principal.
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The Evolving Chant
The introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state, for styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions ..
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Adolescent Angst
As a teacher, house parent and a parent, not necessarily in that order, I have often wondered at the seemingly irreconcilable differences between an energetic, impulsive, complaining, ‘immature’, angst ridden adolescent and the staid, ‘mature’, orderly adult.
Creating Books Without a Formula
Children in India traditionally grew up listening to stories.
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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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Confessions of a Science Teacher
I would like to share my concern for the teaching and future of my subject, as also to suggest the basis of the way that I would proceed, should I get the opportunity to teach again.
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Teaching Peace
As you mellow, the urge to compromise hits oftener, but latecomers continue to annoy me.
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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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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Brockwood Park School: Staff Retreat
Teachers of a school are colleagues in a special sense of the word.
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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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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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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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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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Three Months at Rajghat
It was almost a year ago that my husband Julian and I decided that it was time for us to take a career break, to reflect on where we were in our lives, to leave the treadmill of work and commuting in South England, and to gain some experience of another culture.
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In Quest of Total Excellence
Surely a school is a place where one learns about the totality, the wholeness of life.
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On Discovery: A response
One of Amir Huda’s central points is that, throughout our education, we have become used to learning from teachers in a step by step, accumulative process, instead of discovering things on our own.
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Reinventing the Wheel?
I feel that learning in general, including in schools, is the incremental acquisition of knowledge or information in time, which by its very nature may thwart the process of discovery, by establishing in the mind a framework or paradigm of how to deal with the unknown.
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