encounters with nondual awareness

As long as there is a
centre, the observer, the thinker, the watcher, whatever he does will be within the prison walls.
J Krishnamurti
 

The Awakening of
Intelligence
J Krishnamurti

The Art of Learning

This educational paper sets out a vision for a holistic curriculum approached from three perspectives: inquiry, thought and creativity.

The Question to Life's Answers
Steven Harrison

The Happy Child:
Changing the Heart
of Education
Steven Harrison

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein

School is a place where one learns about the totality, the wholeness of life. Academic excellence is absolutely necessary, but a school teaches more than that. It is a place where the teacher and the taught explore not only the outer world, the world of knowledge, but also their own thinking, their behavior.
J Krishnamurti

In India:
Krishnamurti Foundation India

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school in the forest
The Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary is a forest garden in the Western Ghat mountains of Kerala, India, dedicated to conservation and education. This mountain system is bordered by the Arabian Sea on one side and vast arid areas on others. It supports a unique and endangered flora, and has been identified by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as one of the 25 centres of biodiversity in the world.

Founded in 1981, the Sanctuary is a garden of wild plant species grown at the edge of a large rainforest reserve. Our central intention is to restore endangered species and habitats in a highly fragmented landscape, in which only a fraction of original forest remains and much of the native flora is extracted for human use. The Sanctuary is run by a small group of resident gardeners, naturalists and educators, and supported by a wide circle of well-wishers. Together we offer an approach that is connected to the climate, landscape, ecosystems, plants, animals and people of the Western Ghats.

Caring for the natural world and finding our place in it requires us to open our senses, enter natural spaces and to be where the wild things are. Our residential programs for schoolchildren are aimed at addressing the increasing alienation of people from nature. This is accomplished primarily through an experiential approach to natural history: the cultivation of sensory skills in intensive ‘immersion’ programs in which contact with the forest is core.
Source: Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary website

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the living school
...  a democratic, learner-centered educational environment that is community-based, experientially centered, and focused on the creativity and intelligence inherent in each student. We foster inquiry in each participant by allowing the school itself to be a living experiment in learning.

We have created a school in which children and adults together can experience the world as a whole. A school in which participants--children, parents, and teachers--create forms for exploring our relationship to life in all its variety.
Source: Steven Harrison's website and The Living School website

Education is not merely the acquisition of technical knowledge, but the understanding with sensitivity and intelligence of the whole problem of living... the whole structure of human existence.
J Krishnamurti

Facing A World In Crisis
J Krishnamurti

Meditations on/in
Non/Dualistic
Pedagogy

Alison Catherine Pryer

empty canvas :
wondering mind
an art curriculum designed to foster inquiry and creativity; a series of nine free e-books

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