I have always had this feeling that imparting education is a mysterious activity; that the efficacy of your methodology and strategies, for the most part is unpredictable until the very day of evaluation. This enigmatic nature of education and the multiplicity of approaches to it makes teaching-learning a complex and often wary process. But I think after having gone through Krishnamurty's book On Education, I have begun to have some grips over what I shall do in a classroom. He says, more than imparting knowledge a teacher must first find the difference between knowledge and learning.
The vision he has of the children is to disentangle them from the rat race of society, making them self sufficient and allow them to wallow in the beauty of nature. This he opines, is done through freedom in being sensitive to nature- He asks: 'Can you, every time when you look at a flower, look at it as if you are looking at it for the first time?'
The book is in the format of a socratic dialogism exercised among Jiddu with students and teachers of his institution. It would not be a an exaggeration if I said that the intellectual prowess of the two group provided an equal match for a man like Jiddu. The psychological revolution that he envisions through his schools can be adopted by aspiring teachers as a good model upon which to base their professional career. A must read for every teacher.
-Anjoe-
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