The right kind of education

Bengaluru | Wednesday | 14th August, 2019

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Jiddu Krishnamurti ByExpress News ServiceBENGALURU: Present-day education is a complete failure because it has overemphasized technique. The exclusive cultivation of technique has produced scientists, mathematicians, bridge builders, space conquerors; but do they understand the total process of life? To live at one level, disregarding the total process of life, is to invite misery and destruction. The accumulation of facts and the development of capacity, which we call education, has deprived us of the fullness of integrated life and action. It is because we do not understand the total process of life that we cling to capacity and efficiency, which thus assume overwhelming importance..