Learning from “What-is”: Resonances with Krishnamurti’s Pedagogy

Abstract

Using a personal life narrative, I present how my approach to education developed. Although I have had many influences, here I highlight how aspects of my insights align with the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti. These are not incidental, because I once worked at a Krishnamurti school and conducted academic studies of Krishnamurti’s teachings. Therefore, resonances between such life experiences and how I approach education are inevitable. In synchronicity with Krishnamurti’s approach is my understanding that life is the universal teacher, the world itself the ultimate school, and we are perennially students. However, if one can realize that the nexus for all these is the reality of the present moment, the “what-is,” learning is optimized. Dropping our attachments to what we have already learned, or what we might achieve, offers us the freedom to explore what is unfolding around and within us at each moment.

Keywords

• krishnamurti
• life as teacher
• learning from "what is"
• knowledge vs intellegence