the ignorant man is not the unlearned, but he who does not know himself,
and and the learned man is stupid when he relies on books, on knowledge
and on authority to give him understanding. understanding comes only
through self-knowledge, which is awareness of one's total psychological process.
thus education, in the true sense, is the understanding of oneself, for it is
within each one of us that the whole of existence is gathered. what we now call
education is a matter of accumulating information and knowledge from books,
which anyone can do who can read. such education offers a subtle form of escape
from ourselves, and, like all escapes, it inevitably creates increasing misery.
conflict and confusion result from our own wrong relationship with people,
things and ideas, and until we understand that relationship and alter it, 
mere learning, the gathering of facts and the acquiring of various skills,
can only lead us to engulfing chaos and destruction.

j. krishnamurti,
education and the significance of life. 


* i wondered where the daily quotes had gone. of course they have not gone, but wait until they are released, and since k. has been dead, a faithful representative must bring the daily quotes forth from the archives. i like to think of k. in the archives, guiding the transcribing hand to the appropriate words for today. though he may not write anymore as k. he's still alive for us, his words in our minds. i love this, how a writer writes a body of words that continues living.