Learning from Feedback
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view …
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Not Different in Kind: Exploration into the Teacher-Student Relationship
This article is a rumination on what happens in us teachers when we ‘teach’ another.
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Prashanti’s Dilemma: Wisdom and Struggle in Students’ Voices
Ethic – a set of moral principles, esp. ones relating to or affirming a specified group, field or form of conduct: the puritan ethic was being replaced by the hedonist ethic.
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Goodness cannot flower in the field of fear
In all our schools the educator and those responsible for the students, whether in the classroom, on the playing field or in their rooms, have the responsibility to see that fear in any form does not arise.
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A Mathematical Enquiry
It was an unusually pleasant Wednesday afternoon in July.
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On Being an Effective Teacher
We have all had some great teachers. Or at least, if we have not been fortunate enough, we have heard of great teachers.
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Preparing Students for Examinations And Teaching a Subject Well
There is an implicit assumption widely shared by teachers in the Krishnamurti schools that preparing students to face examinations shifts focus away from learning a subject.
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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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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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Reporting on the Senior School Student
“Is this a report meeting that I see before me?”
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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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Relating with the Earth: An Exploration of the Possibilities in Teaching Geography
In this article I would like to explore the possible ways in which the potentialinherent in geography as a subject can be unfolded, for the teacher and the student.
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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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In the Beginning: The First Week of a New School Year
Like the first page of a novel, the first scene of a play, or the first chords of a piece of music, the first week of a new school year must communicate a lot.
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The Post-School Programme
The question asked most often by visitors to the Centre For Learning is, ‘…but how do your children manage in the Real World outside, when they leave this school?’ There was a time when this question would perplex me – isn’t CFL in the real world just as everything else?! But over the last few years, I have begun to think more about this issue, and I can see that there is a need to answer such a question in depth and with seriousness.
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Creating the Attention Classroom
As a teacher who has spent over ten years teaching senior school students in those tumultuous years when they are growing up, facing the pressures of a performance-dominated society, I have time and again returned to the question of the place of the larger vision of education – of this whole concern with the art of living correctly – in my class.
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Teaching is Not Just a Profession
A few years ago I attended some major teacher conferences and came away with a deep sense of unease.
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Teaching is Not Just a Profession
Having been a professional in the manufacturing industry for some years, I have observed that a professional is liked by those who have gone beyond the profession and developed a deeper relationship with all around.
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Neuropsychological Issues in a Classroom
We all agree that as educators our responsibility is not only to impart knowledge, but also to be concerned with the overall development of the child.
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Reflections on Teaching Mathematics
Those of us who love mathematics and teach it, see that it is intrinsically beautiful.
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Our true vocations
Is there any other way of living in which you and I can function in our true vocation?
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