This awesome line to me as an educator has always been a very sharp reminder not to fall into the trap of traditional education.
This single line provides immense constancy and consistency in perceiving always with a clarity to aim for priorities in educational plans; especially in the school context of diverse challenges unfolding in the daily transactions and interactions.

......."The more sophisticated our education, the more civilized we become - civilized in the sense of being more removed from nature - the more inhuman we become.So what shall one do?......."

Krishnamurthi from 'Living in Goodness'

.....the lot marked out for me is my delight......welcome indeed the heritage that falls to me.....

This post was last updated by Kingston Gilbert Thu, 18 Jun 2009.

' The major problems of the world are the result of the differences between how nature works and the way man thinks.'
Gregory Bateson - British anthropologist and social scientist, author of Steps to an Ecology of Mind.
Apply this to education and we are confronted with the same distance between nature and thought; I often wonder why?

.....the lot marked out for me is my delight......welcome indeed the heritage that falls to me.....

This post was last updated by Kingston Gilbert Tue, 23 Jun 2009.

Kingston Gilbert wrote:

' The major problems of the world are the result of the differences between how nature works and the way man thinks.'
Gregory Bateson - British anthropologist and social scientist, author of Steps to an Ecology of Mind.
Apply this to education and we are confronted with the same distance between nature and thought; I often wonder why?

Fair enough and good question?.lets look at how nature operates and how we do, shell we?

Can we observe our motives while also questioning if nature operates based on the same basis? Greed, ideology etc?

Life is relationship

The relation of plants and living creatures to each other and to their environment has become an increasing concern and we need to dismantle human nature of its 'civilized state and direction';

......."The more sophisticated our education, the more civilized we become - civilized in the sense of being more removed from nature - the more inhuman we become.So what shall one do?......."
Krishnamurthi from 'This Light in Oneself'

Can it be that the process of dismantling..............

- 'our motives while also questioning if nature operates based on the same basis? Greed, ideology etc -' Eve.....................is the action of intelligence which is probably the flowering of goodness ?

.....the lot marked out for me is my delight......welcome indeed the heritage that falls to me.....

So the action of intelligence, which must be with no motive, the flowering of goodness? which means it is the movement of nature, so can we say then that nature is intelligence in action?

Life is relationship

......so conversly it can also be seen that human nature is constantly capturing this 'intelligence in action' in various thought processes causing stagnation, example: 'goodness' is worshipped in various forms - thereby setting a mindless exploitation of nature !

Can there be a way out of this disintegration or is 'goodness' a mis-represented word in education?

Is there a 'verbal revolution' a necessity in communication while capturing the essence of intelligence?

Furthermore it has made me wonder whether our 'linguistic conditioning' and the intimacy of our own 'native tongue' in contrast with international standard language probably conveys its own set of meanings quite distanced from its original psychological sense; I have observed this in the translated versions!

K's communication transends this barrier more because of the simplicity of the content over the use of language to precision, could there be a key there ?

.....the lot marked out for me is my delight......welcome indeed the heritage that falls to me.....

This post was last updated by Kingston Gilbert Wed, 01 Jul 2009.

'Without love and right thinking, oppression and cruelty will ever be on the increase.

The problem of man's antagonism to man can be solved, not by pursuing the ideal of peace, but by understanding the causes of war which lie in our attitude towards life, towards our fellow-beings; and this understanding can come about only through the right kind of education.

Without a change of heart, without goodwill, without the inward transformation which is born of self-awareness, there can be no peace, no happiness for men.'

EDUCATION AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LIFE CHAPTER 3 'INTELLECT, AUTHORITY AND INTELLIGENCE'

.....the lot marked out for me is my delight......welcome indeed the heritage that falls to me.....

This post was last updated by Kingston Gilbert Thu, 23 Jul 2009.

This one liner because I never considered how important the "present" is because always looking to the future.
One liner: You react to the past because the present has LOST ITS SIGNIFICANCE, or because you want to avoid the present; so you go back to the past and live in that emotional thrill, in that reaction of surging memory, because THE PRESENT HAS LITTLE VALUE.
One more one liner: In the present is eternity.......
AMAZING

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