Krishnamurti

There is so much good shit by this guy but here's a sample:

Then there is the question of dying, which we have carefully put far away from us, as something that is going to happen in the future- the future may be fifty years off or tomorrow. We are afraid of coming to an end, coming physically to an end and being separated from the things we have possessed, worked for, experienced - wife, husband, the furniture, the little garden, the books and the poems we have written or hoped to write. And we are afraid to let all that go because we are the furniture, we are the picture that we possess; when we have the capacity to play the violin, we are that violin. Because we have identified ourselves with those things - we are all that and nothing else. Have you every looked at it that way? You are the house - with the shutters, the bedroom, the furniture which you have very carefully polished for years, which you own - that is what you are. If you remove all that you are nothing.

And that is what you are afraid of - of being nothing. Isn't it very strange how you spend forty years going to the office and when you stop doing these things you have heart trouble and die?

Krishnamurti founded schools in England, India, and the U.S. The Oak Grove School in California looks like a pretty good school but is obviously prohibitively expensive. How to provide an education like that for all?

The Krishnamurti Foundation of America website.

Check out the Arrowsmith website. The school corrects many learning disorders. For $4,000 a teacher can be trained to administer the program, but of course the school board has to see value in it to pay you, and the way things look I don't think LD kids are a top priority. To attend the Arrowsmith school in Peterborough for 1 year costs $17,000+, yet the materials of the program are easily replicated and distributed.