School Without Fear (Dialogues with Teachers and Parents)

The dialogues in this book School Without Fear are being published sixty years atter Krishnamurti held them at the Rajghat Besant School, which he had founded on the banks of the Ganges in the early 1930s. From December 1954 to February 1955, he stayed on the campus and talked to the teachers and parents. Ranging from articulating his most sublime vision of life to thrashing out the practicalities of running a boarding school, h covers every conceivable aspect of education. The result is these twenty-six dialogues, which perhaps form the longest series of dialogues on education in the entire Krishnamurti repertoire.

J. Krishnamurti (1895 -1986) is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and religious teachers of all tim For more than sixty years he travelled the world over, giving talks and holding dialogues, not as a guru but as a friend. His teachings are not based on book knowledge and theories, and therefore they communicate directly to anyone seeking answers to the present world crisis as well to the eternal problems of human existence.

THE dialogues in this book are being published sixty years after Krishnamurti held them at the Rajghat Besant School, which he had founded on the banks of the Ganges in the early 1930s. From December 1954 to February 1955, he stayed on the campus and talked to the teachers and parents. Ranging from articulating his most sublime vision of life to thrashing out the practicalities of running a boarding school, he covers every conceivable aspect of education. The result is these twenty-six dialogues, which form the longest series of dialogues on education in the entire Krishnamurti repertoire. It is worth noting that one of the earliest of Krishnamurti's commercially published books was on education-Education and the Significance of Life, brought out in 1953. During the post-War decade and after the first flush of India's Independence, it must have been a revelation to many that such fundamental questions as posed by Krishnamurti even existed, let alone were expressed with great clarity, in the realm of school education. Since then several of his writings, talks, and dialogues with teachers and students have been published, covering the entire gamut of education-its philosophical underpinnings, its rationale, its purpose and, above all, his own unique vision of education as not being just an activity of teaching and learning, but a way of life for the teacher as well as the taught.

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