JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

Born 1895
🞂 Education is a religious activity as a common man. It is
a preparation to succeed in common life and the secular
world.

🞂 It cannot be the time bound conditional or cultural.

🞂 It must lead to wisdom, knowledge and it got by

consciousness
Main Features of philosophy
Integral Education

🞂 “The highest function of Education is to bring

about an integrated individual who is capable
of dealing with life as a whole”.

🞂 He said that “Education should encourage self

observation and experience of life as a whole
Not to me and mine”.
Cont..
🞂 The Education should be concerned with the totality of
life and not with the immediate responses imidiate
challenges.

🞂 The function of Education is to help pupil to discover

inner psychological resources and develop his own
individual strengths.
The Educators Role
🞂 The teacher himself should be properly integrated
human being.

🞂 The teacher has to be careful thoughtful and

affectionate in creation of the right environment for the
development 0f understanding to enable the child to
deal intelligently human problems.

🞂 For a true teacher teaching is not only technique but

the way of life also.
Aims Of Education
🞂 To educate the total Human being

🞂 To inculcate a love for nature and respect for all forms

of life.

🞂 To develop cultivation of mind, heart and physical well

being.
Functions Of Education
Education For Self Knowledge awakening Of
Intelligence :

#Insight in to the working for self is more

important than academic learning.

# Self knowledge can bring happiness, its

beginning of integration.
 Education For Cultivation
of responsibility

🞂 Educators function is not only to teach academic

subjects but also to awaken the sense of responsibility
for the whole mankind and life.
Education for the unravelling of
a conditioned mind
🞂 Each one of us is conditioned by the world
we learn.

🞂 We are told to think what not to think and

how to think.

🞂 We are moulded as per the ideals and belief

of the past generation
 Education for elimination of
fear
🞂 If fear is there than person cannot take initiation.

🞂 Human beings are bounded psychologically and physically.

🞂 The consequences is we build a wall round ourselves to

resist further pain so we become fearful and withdrawn.

🞂 This fear should be removed to do something original

spontaneously and naturally without being guided forced for
which absence of fear is necessary.
🞂 Fear dulls our mind hurdles our thinking,originality and
creativity
Education for inculcating love
for Nature

🞂 It is important to enjoy and observe nature

as it leas to understand world and self.
🞂 You can understand self by being in touch
with nature
Education For creating global
out look
🞂 He said that, “We should create a new generation free
from division forces of race, caste, religion”.

◦ You belong to Mankind and Human being.

Curriculum

🞂 Get the knowledge of all times be it in mathematics and

history academic learning.

🞂 Technological : Equip the child to the most excellent

technological proficiency and efficiency.

🞂 Physical Education : part of the school syllabus

Cont.
🞂 Yoga and Meditation : To know one self one should
know meditation. Yoga is important for spiritual and
physical development.

🞂 Observation of Nature : Education is not passing

examination, Examinations is needed but we must be
able to listen to the birds, to see the sky. and to see
extra ordinary beauty of tree.
Value Education

🞂 He means through value education one should have

understanding of cooperation, understanding each
other, what freedom means, what team work means .
 Religious and Spiritual
Education
🞂 Gives importance to self reflection-to observe how to
think, what to think. He gave importance to meditation
for developing self understanding.

🞂Peace Education
◦ Education should help in bringing up a good society in
which human being live happily in a peace
 Qualities Of a teacher
🞂 Should have honesty and humility, sense of passion and
should feel from within that he is responsible for the
whole of mankind.

🞂 Should have quality of sense of discovery and

eagerness to know more than transmitting knowledge
mechanically.

🞂 Have patience and ability to learn.