Tag:  Education

• Conflict and confusion result from our own wrong relationship with people, things and ideas September 12, 2009

  What we now call education is a matter of accumulating information and knowledge from books, which anyone can do who can read. Such education offers a subtle form of escape from ourselves and, lik...

• Right education is a mutual task demanding patience, consideration and affection. October 10, 2009

  If the teacher takes a real interest in the child as an individual, the parents will have confidence in him. In this process, the teacher is educating the parents as well as himself, while learning...

• We don't love children, because we have no love in our own hearts. We just breed children. October 11, 2009

  Question: What is the place of discipline in education? Krishnamurti: I should say, none. Just a minute, I will explain it further. What is the purpose of discipline? What do you mean by discipl...

• Do you not feel that the darkness is closing in, deterioration is setting in fast in every human being? November 25, 2009

  Question: Modern life has become abjectly dependent on highly trained persons; what are your views on university education? How can we prevent the misuse of higher technical knowledge? Krishnamu...

• The present social struggle to bring about equality on the economic or some spiritual level has no meaning at all. December 30, 2009

  The fullest development of every individual creates a society of equals. The present social struggle to bring about equality on the economic or some spiritual level has no meaning at all. Social-re...

• As long as we go on climbing the ladder of success, there will always be the sick and the unfed. March 04, 2010

  Questioner: Why are some people born in poor circumstances, while others are rich and well-to-do? Krishnamurti: What do you think? Instead of asking me and waiting for my answer, why do you...

• Right education is surely finding a different way of life, setting the mind free from its own conditioning. May 19, 2010

  What are you educated for, anyway? You may be a sociologist, an anthropologist or a scientist, with your specialized mind working away at a fragment of the whole field of life. You are filled with ...

• What I say is very simple. I say that authority is created when the mind seeks comfort in security. February 05, 2011

  Question: You speak to man, but man has first been a child. How can we educate a child without discipline? Krishnamurti: Do you agree that discipline is futile? Do you feel the futility of disci...