Education Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Learning is possible only when there is no coercion of any kind.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

What is of great importance is that everyone should concern himself with what I am saying, rather than with the personality of…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“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

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

We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I do not think that you can try and systematize education for the whole world. I would try experiments in small communities…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

“Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Why do we go through the struggle to be educated? Is it merely in order to pass some examinations and get a…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Teaching is not the mere imparting of information but the cultivation of an inquiring mind which will penetrate into the question of…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti