Writing Textbooks for Children
Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop which makes personal care cosmetics, was once asked admiringly what special materials her products were made from.
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The School of Life
Prefatory NoteSince the publication in July 2 2006 of the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools ‘dedicated to the teacher’, there has been an increasing, if varied, response to the necessary task of educating the educator.
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Self-directed Learning in Mathematics: Applying Krishnamurti in everyday classroom practice
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.
A Structural Answer to a Cultural Question: Mixed Age Group in the Middle School
This article is an account of a pilot project on learning in a mixed age group environment in the middle school classes 5, 6 and 7, initiated at The School, KFI, in Chennai in the year 2006-2007.
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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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Amaltash: Individualised learning in a vertical group
The Amaltash programme started as a pilot project to study the problems and possibilities of individualised and group learning in a mixed age group in the middle school.
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Facilitating Career Discovery
The meaning and purpose of work Work is as old as the history of mankind.
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A Script for Self-Learning
Background of NachiketNachiket is one of the many educational centers of the Krishnamurti Foundation.
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Ninny stuff: Utility and Education
In 1921 when Einstein first visited America, he encountered Edison through a questionnaire.
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Competition and its Educational Consequences: Is There an Alternative?
Competition as a driving principle of life seems to have become all-pervasive, and it appears to extend into every nook and cranny of social activity: sports, music, dance (and all the performing arts), business, research, academia in general.
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A Course in Contemporary Art
Last year Brockwood Park School initiated a new art class to explore the expressions of Western contemporary art, focusing on the phenomenon of ‘Conceptual Art’.
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As the Mystery Unfolds
Working with children on a project has been a most rewarding experience.
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Reflections on the Nature of Insight
I would like to begin by thanking David Moody for writing his interesting article, thus giving me an opportunity to note down some of my thoughts on the nature of insight.
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The Rhythm of a Different Day
At the edge of the rainforest inWynad, Kerala, some children are sleeping on the floor of a large room.
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