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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti on education: There is a questioning today of
the basic postulates of the educational structure and its various systems in
India and in the rest of the world. At all levels there is a growing
realization that the existing models have failed and that there is a total
lack of relevance between the human being and the complex, contemporary
society.
The ecological crisis and increasing poverty, hunger and violence, are
forcing man inevitably to face the realities of the human situation. At a
time like this, a completely new approach to the postulates of education is
necessary. Krishnamurti questions the roots of our culture. His challenge is
addressed not only to the structure of education but to the nature and
quality of man's mind and life.
Unlike all other attempts to salvage or suggest alternatives to the
educational system, Krishnamurti's approach breaks through frontiers of
particular cultures and establishes an entirely new set of values, which in
turn can create a new civilization and a new society.
J. Krishnamurti on Education -
Talks to Students
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Krishnamurti:
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by
any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of
view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally.
Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path
whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor should any organisation be formed
to lead or coerce people along any particular path.
If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to
organise a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you
cannot and must not organise it. If you do, it becomes dead,
crystallised; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on
others.
This is what everyone throughout the world is attempting to do. Truth is
narrowed down and made a plaything for those who are weak, for those who
are only momentarily discontented.
Truth cannot be brought down, rather the individual must make the effort
to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountain-top to the valley....
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