I have created this blog to share what i read and also to get people inputs on what they are reading, there learning....
This blog is an invitation for you to share your opinion about any book, learning, comments on new books, it will help each of us to grow by learning from each other experiences, knowledge.
I feel there is so much in the books, a immense knowledge base, if utilized constructively can change the whole world, every writer presents his thoughts in the form of books and as everybody is unique, the thought process brings new ideas, which help us to understand people and this world better, it also brings self realizations, our own stories.
It will be a focus from my end that i share with you guys the books i am reading and also my picks/summary of that book.One can also share his or her opinion about the current affairs(Political/Business or anything).
Let us all be a solution provider, a contributor in one way or another.
Thanks
Manish Malik
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As promised..my part for today..
Once I read a book of "Shri Aurbindo" about education system in India, it suggested to scrap the system we are following now in our schools and book was published in 18xx. It had the outline of how will be the education once we get independence. It has not happened yet. Krishnamurti also has unique thoughts on education. In this particular letter, he is emphasising on importance of learning and leisure.
"The whole movement of life is learning.....the accumulation of knowledge, which is called learning and to which we are so accustomed, is necessary to a limited extent, but the limitation prevents us from comprehending ourselves.........
We learn from a book or from a teacher who has a great deal of information about a subject, and our brains are filled this information....this process goes on endlessly, and gradually we become second-hand human beings... this is our modern education...
The act of learning is the act of pure observation, and this observation is not held within the limitation of memory. We learn to earn a living but we never live.
It is only when you have leisure that you can learn....learning can take place only when there is no pressure of any kind....
We are so occupied with our livelihood that it takes that it takes all the energy of the mechanism of thought, so we are exhausted at the end of the day....
There is no leisure to learn, and so life becomes mechanical, almost meaningless.... leisure is a period when the mind is not occupied with anything whatsoever.. it is time of observation.
It is the absolute responsibility of the teacher to cultivate the flowering of goodness in leisure... for this reason the schools exis... "
That's all for today... will share something tomorrow....
- Gaurav Sangtani
Full text of the post at:
http://ateawithme.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/j-krishnamurti-on-education-part-1/
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