Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it .... For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

The Boston College community took a personal interest in my success, not only as a student but as a human being.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

I learned what education really is: the penetrating deeper and rising higher into life, as well as making continually wider explorations; the rounding of the whole human being out of its nebulous elements into form, as planets and suns are rounded, until they give out safe and steady light. This makes the process a infinite one, not possible to be completed at any school.

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.

Your development as a person should coincide with your development in all aspects of your life.

Education should be as broad as man.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.

I have developed as a player but also as a human being.

I want to be super well-rounded.

I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.

I'm not a policy oriented person. I'm constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.

We grow each day or don't grow. Go the other way. We're a different person all the time. The human being is something happening differently every day. That's the challenge of doing a play: using your instrument to learn and to pull out these things.

It is not the aim of Kenpo to merely produce a skillful as well as powerful practitioner, but to create a well integrated student respectful of all.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.