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

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Education, Children, Teaching
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Children, School, Easier

If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Powerful, Children, War
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers

If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Children

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Children, Heredity And Environment, Savages
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In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great understanding, the strength of patience and love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Children

We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that they will fit into the pattern of society, That is what every parent wants, is it not? And that is exactly what is happening, whether it be in America or in Europe, in Russia or in India. The pattern may vary slightly, but they all want the child to conform.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Children, Russia, Europe
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “Collected Works of J Krishnamurti 1956-1957: A Light to Yourself”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Children, Flower, Patterns

I would teach my child to respect what is right - the word right is a difficult word to use - I would teach him to respect the intrinsic value of things. Do you see what I mean? The true proportion of things.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Children, Mean, Use
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If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Children, Growing Up, Heart
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Whatever discipline you exercise should be based on the goal your child is eventually to reach, namely, freedom and happiness. I would show him towards what he is growing, his ultimate fulfilment, and help him to adapt himself to that. In everything that you do, you should keep the goal in view, and hence your discipline must aim at helping the child to realize that at a certain stage he will be above all discipline.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Children, Exercise, Views
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I do not think that you can try and systematize education for the whole world. I would try experiments in small communities and in schools to see how they work out, instead of taking the children of an entire nation and trying to bring them up on the same system.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Children, School, Thinking
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When your child is very young, you must protect him from doing harm to himself and others, then later by precept, explaining to him what is going to be for his eventual happiness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Children, Harm, Explaining
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