Insights Into Education

J Krishnamurti

• Publisher: Krishnamurti Foundation America
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN:
  9781912875047
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

Insights into Education presents the educational philosophy of J. Krishnamurti in an easy to use, topic-based format. It is a practical handbook that comes alive when used as an introduction to group investigation and dialogue. What it offers to teachers everywhere is an inroad into the many matters of concern with which they are faced on a daily basis. That we cannot continue as we have been doing, with rote-learning, fact-finding, and a modicum of analysis as the building blocks of education, is obvious to anyone who is at all concerned with teaching and learning in a world with accelerating technological advancement, alienation, and despair. It is these very issues that are tackled here, sometimes implicitly but always at depth. What Krishnamurti proposes, and here discloses, is a different approach to learning altogether, one that distinguishes itself radically from what we normally understand by that term: the accumulation of knowledge, with its application and testing. By narrowing down our understanding to the pragmatic and the measurable, we forfeit the opportunity to probe deeply and to awaken intelligence in our students and in ourselves. What is meant by intelligence in this context is not the capacity to memorize and measure, but that subtler ability to see the whole which comes alive in a human being when he/she sees the limits of the measurable. To awaken this intelligence is the goal of education.O›Insights into Education presents the educational philosophy of J. Krishnamurti in an easy to use, topic-based format. It is a practical handbook that comes alive when used as an introduction to group investigation and dialogue. What it offers to teachers everywhere is an inroad into the many matters of concern with which they are faced on a daily basis. That we cannot continue as we have been doing, with rote-learning, fact-finding, and a modicum of analysis as the building blocks of education, is obvious to anyone who is at all concerned with teaching and learning in a world with accelerating technological advancement, alienation, and despair. It is these very issues that are tackled here, sometimes implicitly but always at depth. What Krishnamurti proposes, and here discloses, is a different approach to learning altogether, one that distinguishes itself radically from what we normally understand by that term: the accumulation of knowledge, with its application and testing. By narrowing down our understanding to the pragmatic and the measurable, we forfeit the opportunity to probe deeply and to awaken intelligence in our students and in ourselves. What is meant by intelligence in this context is not the capacity to memorize and measure, but that subtler ability to see the whole which comes alive in a human being when he/she sees the limits of the measurable. To awaken this intelligence is the goal of education.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• The Purpose of Life
• Education and the Purpose of Life
• The Aims of Education
• Educating the Educator
• The Individual and Society
• Fear, Anxiety, Emptiness
• Emptiness, Loneliness, Sorrow, Death
• Being Alone with Death
• The Conditioning Process
• Education and the Conditioning Process
• Relationship of the Teacher with the Student
• The Child and the Adult
• The Observation of Relationship
• Relationship with the World and People
• Relationship to Nature (Working with One’s Hands)
• The Integrated Human Being
• The Integrated Human Being (The Role of the Educator)
• Brain and Mind
• Knowledge, Memory, Experience, Thinking
• Thought Process, Ego Process
• Identity and Identification
• Concentration, Awareness and Attention
• Listening, Looking, Learning
• Freedom
• Freedom and Order in School
• Fear and Authority in School
• Insight
• Inquiry and Investigation
• Investigation with School Students
• Comparison and Competition
• Harmony of Body, Mind and Heart
• Thinking Together
• Thinking Together about Education
• Negative Thinking
• Intelligence
• Intelligence, Global Thinking and Education
• Intelligence and Cleverness
• The Scientific Mind and the Religious Mind
• The Scientific Mind and the Religious Mind (with School Students)
• Creative Energy
• The Conscious and the Unconscious Mind
• Common Consciousness
• The Significance of Subjects
• Right Action
• Excellence
• Education and Revolution
• Love and Compassion
• Love, Compassion and Wisdom
• Silence and Meditation
• Meditation with School Students
• Meditation and Education
• Source Notes