The Alphabet of Literature
I don’t want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.
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The Subject of Art
The love of beauty may express itself in a song, in a smile, or in silence; but most of us have no inclination to be silent.
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What is Academic Rigour?
‘Academics’ is a top priority in all educational institutions, for obvious reasons.
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On the Threshold of Touch
Behaviour exposes the content of your consciousness.- J KrishnamurtiAs a long time environmental educator I’ve been exploring imitation, song, touch and body-in-nature as channels of empathy between humans, and also between human and non-humans.
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Close Encounters of a Natural Kind: Nature-based Curriculum from Intent to Action
In my childhood, nature had an amorphous, seraphic form.
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Anxiety, Openness and Freedom
Do animals feel fear? On the face of it, this seems to be an absurd question, for of course, animals do feel fear.
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Environmental Education in Our Schools
As it is the United Nations’ Year of Biodiversity, it seems an appropriate time to stand back and take stock of the way we teach environmental education in Krishnamurti Schools.
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The Philosophical Underpinnings of Holistic Education
Holistic education is a philosophy of education based on the premise that each person finds identity, meaning, and purpose in life through connections to the community, to the natural world, and to spiritual values such as compassion and peace.(Miller, R.
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Walks: To Nurture the Natural
Exulting in an unexpected shower in the summer, running off to float paper boats in puddles after the rains, looking for delicious berries at a particular time of the year, watching little insects, picking wild flowers to make bouquets, finding shining smooth pebbles or shells, feeling the soft sand and the rushing water on the beach, climbing a giant tree, running up and down a hillside—the list can go on.
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On Ambition: A Talk to Students
We have heard people say, that without ambition, we cannot do anything.
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An Approach to Environmental Education: Lessons from Krishnamurti
This article is based on my experience of teaching Environmental Education for Classes 9 and 10 for the past ten years.
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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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Desperate Times and a New Order of Education
Listening to my daughter’s tenth grade history teacher at Parents’ Night the other evening, I found out that California high school world history covers only modern history:the European Enlightenment, the French Revolution, world colonialism, World War I, World War II, the Cold War and so on up to the present day.
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The “Sameness” Curriculum
We are aware of ourselves and act as individuals with distinct personalities.
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Editorial
…seeing all these outward things without condemnation, without choice, you can ride on the tide of inner awareness.
Creating Books Without a Formula
Children in India traditionally grew up listening to stories.
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A Feeling for Beauty: Dance in Education
Long before a child sees that the world is made up of books and classrooms he is aware that he can do the most amazing things with his hands and feet.
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The Teachings: Pushing the Envelope
Two things that are very important in the Krishnamurti movement are the ‘Sacred’ and the ‘Teachings’ (how to get to the sacred).
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What Makes a Teacher
The question is sometimes raised, why the Krishnamurti schools do not have greater purchase in the educational community and, with the exception of the schools of the Rural Education Programme at Rishi Valley, do not have wider applicability.
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Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Students
This is a journal on education that is brought out annually. It is an anthology of writings by educators, teachers and thinkers exploring a new vision of education in its many dimensions—philosophy, psychology, classroom experience, curriculum, nature and environment, and contemporary issues. It lays special emphasis on J Krishnamurti’s principles of education.
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Review of “Krishnamurti for the Young – A Series of Three Books”, Edited by Ahalya Chari
These are the first three in a series of books designed to help the young to understand and deal with the world within themselves…
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Healing Our Civilization’s Intellectual Schizophrenia
Krishnamurti’s teachings seem more deep existential therapy than systematic philosophy.
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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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Cities and Cultures: New Approaches to the Curriculum
Rethinking the Social Studies Curriculum New ventures often begin with discontent.
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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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Studying Economics as if People Mattered
The students enter the classroom. I watch as they place their history folders on the table around which we all sit.
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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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Haiku: Art of Perception
At the outset, I would like to explore the meaning of the word ‘communion’, which Krishnamurti often used in his writing.
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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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Speaking of God
In every human being there is the quest for the unknown, and in every consciousness, whether young or old, whether traditional or modern, there is a notion of God.
An Approach to Teaching Religion
In the 1950s and ’60s, the secular, objective, ‘scientific’ study of religion broke away from the traditional discipline of religion (i.e., apologetics for a particular dominant religion).
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