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There must be a different kind of education
If there is to be any kind of social change, there must be a different kind of education so that children are not brought up to conform.
—KRISHNAMURTI
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So there is this question: how is the mind to free itself from conditioning? I do not know if you have ever tried it, gone into it very deeply, not only at the conscious level but at the deeper layers of consciousness. Actually, is there a division between the two? Or is it one movement, in which we are only conscious of the superficial movement which has been educated to conform to the demands of a particular society or culture?

When the competitive spirit has ceased
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
—KRISHNAMURTI
From the book Krishnamurti On Education
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Why governments seek to control education
Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organised religions as well. That is why governments and religious organisations seek to control education.
—KRISHNAMURTI
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Life cannot be made to conform to a system, it cannot be forced into a framework, however nobly conceived; and a mind that has merely been trained in factual knowledge is incapable of meeting life with its variety, its subtlety, its depths and great heights. When we train our children according to a system of thought or a particular discipline, when we teach them to think within departmental divisions, we prevent them from growing into integrated men and women, and therefore they are incapable of thinking intelligently, which is to meet life as a whole.

To understand a child
To understand a child we have to watch him at play, study him in his different moods; we cannot project upon him our own prejudices, hopes and fears, or mould him to fit the pattern of our desires.
—KRISHNAMURTI
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Awakening the capacity to perceive the essential
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.
—KRISHNAMURTI
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