Where Does Responsibility Lie?
We live our lives in compartments. The big one for this, the smaller one for that, and the mid-sized one for something else.
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The Unbearable Ennui of being Sherlock Holmes: A Meditation in Three Movements
Sherlock Holmes, as is well known, was a person who was subject to violent fluctuations of mood.
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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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A New Look at Critical Thinking
One of the units of my 10th grade English class at Oak Grove School is ‘critical thinking.’ Traditionally, in U.S.
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Towards a Consciousness Curriculum
Consciousness is the primary datum of existence, of human existence, and perhaps of all existence.
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The Power of Truth
I wonder what the future holds for us in the Krishnamurti schools.
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A School in the Forest
Every year around 2000 people walk up the three kilometres of dirt road, in rain and sun, to visit the gardens at the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary.
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Krishnamurti and the Modern Mind
Of the great Indian religious philosophers born in the nineteenth century, Krishnamurti was the youngest as well as the most radical.
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World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity (Courtesy: Union of Concerned Scientists, MA, USA)
Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course.
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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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Demystifying Insight
The following three pieces have been received in response to David Moody’s article: ‘The Insight Curriculum’, which appearedin Volume 2 of the journa1, July 1998.
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From Local Studies Towards a Global Outlook – A New Geography for 12-year-Olds
Geography began with the realization that there was another side to the mountain and other people across the sea.
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A Treasure House of Stories
There is a Sufi story told of how a poor farmer had journeyed to Delhi to beg for some financial help from the great Sufi Saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia.
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Education and Indian Nationalism
The British Concept of IndiaThe spirit of nationalism was hovering in the Indian air when J.
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Media and Young Minds: The Role of Education
Living in a world filled with the by-products of human technological advances, one senses the tidal wave of globalization that sweeps across the planet, carrying with it hi-tech products, new lifestyles and a consumer culture to far corners of the globe.
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Review of “Classic Myths to Read Aloud”, William F. Russel
Good storytellers can demand your attention by showing you new ways of looking at an old story.
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Review of “Sophie’s World: Jostein Gaarder”, Translated from the Norwegian by Paulette Millen
Sophie’s World is a novel about the History of Philosophy.
Education and the Environmental Issue
Why focus on the environmental crisis? It seems clear that the activities of humankind are leading, in an irrational way, to self-destruction.
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Ecological Perception
In the days before scientific thinking took hold in the West the earth was seen as a vast living being worthy of deep respect and reverence.
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Skotmos in School
We recognize the growing complexity of the challenges facing schools today and we seek answers in educational reform and innovation.