The Right Kind of Education

"Freedom comes into being only through self-knowledge in one's daily occupations, that is, in one's relationship with people, with things, with ideas and with nature. It is the understanding of the total process of existence that brings integration. When there is self-knowledge, the power of creating illusions ceases, and only then is it possible for reality or God to be. Teaching should not become a specialist's profession. When it does, as is so often the case, love fades away; and love is essential to the process of integration. To be integrated there must be freedom from fear. Fearlessness brings independence without ruthlessness, without contempt for another, and this is the most essential factor in life. The integrated human being will come to technique through experiencing, for the creative impulse makes its own technique--and that is the greatest art."

Jiddu Krisnamurti

Knowledge vs. Learning

"...A school is a place of learning and so it is sacred. The churches, temples and mosques are not sacred for they ave stopped learning. They believe; they have faith and that denies entirely the great art of learning, whereas a school...must be entirely devoted to learning, not only about the world around us, but essentially about what we human being are, why we believe the way we do, and the complexity of though...Learning and the accumulation of knowledge are two very different things. Knowledge must always be incomplete, whereas learning is order. Disorder is essentially conflict, self-contradiction and division between becoming a being. Order is a state in which disorder has never existed. Disorder is the bondage of time.
J. Krisnamurti