K on education.

Question: What is right education? As teachers and as parents, we are confused.

Jiddu Krishnamurti : Now, how are we going to find the truth of this matter? Merely forcing the mind into a system, a pattern, is obviously not education. So, to discover what is right education, we must find out what we mean by "education." Surely, education is not to learn the purpose of life, but to understand the meaning, the significance, the process of existence; because if you say life has a purpose, then the purpose is self-projected.

Surely, to find out what is right education, you have first to inquire into the whole significance of life, of living. What is present education? Learning to earn a few rupees, acquiring a trade, becoming an engineer, a sociologist, learning how to butcher people, or how to read a poem. If you say education is to make a person efficient, which means to give him technical knowledge, then you must understand the whole significance of efficiency. What happens when a person becomes more and more efficient? He becomes more and more ruthless. Don't laugh. What are you doing in your daily life? What is happening, now in the world?

Education means the development of a particular technique, which is efficiency, which means industrialization, the capacity to work faster and produce more and more, all of which ultimately leads to war. You see this happening every day. Education as it is leads to war, and what is the point of education? To destroy or be destroyed. So, obviously, the present system of education is utterly futile. Therefore, what is important is to educate the educator. These are not clever statements to be listened to and laughed off. Because, without educating the teacher, what can he teach the child except the exploiting principles on which he himself has been brought up? Most of you have read many books. Where are you? You have money or can earn it, you have your pleasures and ceremonies - and you are in conflict; and what is the point of education, of learning to earn a few rupees, when your whole existence leads to misery and war?

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Dan.....

Muad dheeb wrote:
what is the point of education, of learning to earn a few rupees, when your whole existence leads to misery and war?

Many times i have wondered when a lay man question a well learned man when he is not right , are you all educated. i have not met a doctorate meeting this question. perhaps the man might have meant the vedic( again the word is not the thing) education.How sorrowfully he used to say only the guys who are educated doing ugly things here.
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We are watching, not waiting, not expecting anything to happen but watching without end. JK

when is he not right, ?

well your meditative mind, knows all men, accepts humans are part of the whole of life. man knows his self capacity to truth, but should ask a question however difficult on his own understanding of the human world , based on a tradition view, you know what true answers are don't you ?, said the comedian

i think also mauud you are talking about different types of people now , that have their common view, one used to say humans lived the same way, the should infact do so again. use a wood fire, twigs, leaves, and paper, get a pan of soup, hmmm, you know your body will be right, condition, back to humanity. one used to know truth cannot fully be explored, we are only a thinking creature because it is popular tradition, reallly men is a quiet creature, a void , of the unknown is our life.

you know man cannot be right, he has to understand his human nature, are you are bad fellow or a good one, no matter, one cannot help being terrible or even respectful, though once we were all one human race. if you get a real answer then, if it rings true, people can he or she was right for all of us, answers are known, life is timeless, it is true we will have to know.

when all men are faced with a problem, whom will actually show, not just in character, but their actual honesty to their own land. people are in the wrong lands, all over the world, and they lie through their bums, the higher men need to make a comeback, they were always right in a good chat, beat me right?

the messiah