“Learning is possible only when there is no coercion of any kind.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You yourself are the Teacher, and the Pupil, you're the Master, you're the Guru, you are the Leader, you are Everything! And,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
What is of great importance is that everyone should concern himself with what I am saying, rather than with the personality of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“But self-knowledge cannot be imposed, understanding cannot be compelled; and if this is a vital problem to you and me, to the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Teaching is not the mere imparting of information but the cultivation of an inquiring mind which will penetrate into the question of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher;… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The purpose of having the title 'World-Teacher' is to acknowledge, to show, the condition of mind and heart when you have achieved.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Why do we go through the struggle to be educated? Is it merely in order to pass some examinations and get a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I do not think that you can try and systematize education for the whole world. I would try experiments in small communities… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
Whatever discipline you exercise should be based on the goal your child is eventually to reach, namely, freedom and happiness. I would show him… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
“Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
“Meditation is like going to a well, the waters of which are inexhaustible, with a pitcher that is always empty. The pitcher can never… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
When we stop fighting with ourselves, we aren't creating anymore conflict in our mind. Then our mind can for the first time relax and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
