Krishnamurti on education. Selected quotes II

-If your teachers really loved to teach, do you know what would happen to you? You would be extraordinary human beings. You would love not only your games and your studies, but also the flowers, the river, the birds, the earth, because you would have this thing vibrating in your hearts, and you would learn much more quickly, your minds would be excellent and not mediocre. That is why it is very important to educate the educator.

-Living is itself a process of education, a process of learning. There is an end to examinations, but there is no end to learning and you can learn  from everything if your mind is curious, alert.

-Our present education is rotten because it teaches us to love success and not what we are doing. The result has become more important than the action.

-It is good to hide your brilliance under a bushel, to be anonymous, to love what you are doing and not to show off. It is good to be kind without a name. That does not make you famous, it does not cause your photograph to appear in the newspapers. Politicians do no come to your door. You are just a creative human being living anonymously , and in that there is richness and great beauty.

-There is inspiration in everything. That is why it is very important not to follow anybody, not to have one particular teacher, but to learn from the river, the flowers, the trees, from the woman who carries a burden, from and education which nobody can give you but yourself, and that is the beauty of it.

-Most of us are educated to pay attention through resistance, and so our attention is always partial, never complete -and that is why learning becomes tedious, boring, a fearful thing. Therefore it is very important to pay attention in the deep sense of the word, which is to be aware of the workings of one's own mind. Without self-knowledge you cannot pay complete attention. That is why, in a real school, the student must not only be taught various subjects but also be helped to be aware of the process of this own thinking. In understanding himself he will know what it is to pay attention without resistance, for the understanding of oneself is the way of mediation.