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Herzien Programma / Revised Programma – Revolution in education, seminar 9-10 May 2015, één dag deelnemen is ook mogelijk

16 april 2015

Samen met het Krishnamurti informatie centrum Bilthoven en de TVN organiseert het ITC te Naarden een Engelstalig seminar over ‘holistisch onderwijs’. Prof. P. Krishna is de hoofdspreker en moderator.

Er wordt tegenwoordig een toenemende kloof waargenomen tussen het traditionele schoolsysteem en de behoefte om kinderen op te voeden op een manier die al hun kwaliteiten, inclusief hun spirituele kwaliteiten, tot ontplooiing brengt ten dienste van een gezonde samenleving. Alleen zij die als volwassenen een vrije, ongeconditioneerde geest hebben zullen in staat zijn de veranderingen door te voeren die nodig zijn om de mensheid te transformeren. In het bijgaande programma vindt u informatie over de sprekers en onderwerpen.

Revised programme

Revolution in Education

9 + 10 May 2015

Saturday 9th May

10.00                  arrival and coffee

10.30                  lecture Dr. P. Krishna, professor of physics, “Educating for the Transformation of Consciousness”. Can education transform human consciousness and create a new mind?

11.45                  Q&A

12.00                  lunch break

14.00                 lecture Anastasia Dingarten, philosopher and trainer of Montessori teachers: ‘Connection between classical western philosophy and Maria Montessori’.

15.00                  tea break

16.00                 lecture Johanna Vermeulen, member of the Theosophical Society Point Loma: ‘Raja Yoga Education, based on theosophical teachings’.

17.00                  Q&A

18.30                  dinner

19.30                 ‘The school KFI – an impression’: documentary on the Krishnamurti school in Chennai, introduced by Hans von Lengerke

Sunday 10th May

08.00                  meditation (optional, in silence)

08.30                  breakfast

10.00 arrival and coffee

10.30                 lecture Javier Gómez Rodríguez, freelance writer and lecturer, ‘Krishnamurti on education’.

12.30                 lunch break

14.00                 lecture Dr. Hans Gerding, emeritus professor of philosophy, ‘The learning environment at universities’. The overvaluation of rationality and a blind spot where the full human potential is concerned, create a learning context that goes against genuine education.

15.00                  tea break

15.30                  lecture Dr. P. Krishna: ‘What are the essential questions?’

16.15                  Q&A

17.00                  closing

Monday 11th May (dialogues, a separate programme)

09.30 dialogue with Dr. P. Krishna. What have we learned from the seminar?

12.00 lunch break

14.00 dialogue with Dr. P. Krishna. What is the road ahead?

17.00 closing of the dialogues programme

Location:

International Theosophical Centre Naarden, Meentweg 9, 1411 GR Naarden

Registration and fees:

Registration fee per day, including lunch                 € 35

Dinner Saturday evening                                             € 15

Lodging Saturday evening and Sunday breakfast    € 30

Dialogue on Monday, including lunch                       € 15

You can pay on arrival.

Please register through an email to

Or call: 035-541 71 18 (Martie Velthuis)

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EXTRA: after this weekend there will still be some activities for which you must register separately:

monday 11/5 Dialogue with Prof. Krishna at the ITC, Naarden

tuesday 12/5 At the Krishnamurti Informatie Centrum in Deventer register at 

wednesday 13/5 A video of Krishnamurti speaking on education, at the ITC, Naarden

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Inspiration:

Children should above all be taught self-reliance, love for all men, altruism, mutual charity, and more than anything else, to think and reason for themselves. We would reduce the purely mechanical work of the memory to an absolute minimum, and devote the time to the development and training of the inner senses, faculties and latent capacities. We would endeavour to deal with each child as a unit, and to educate it so as to produce the most harmonious and equal unfoldment of its powers, in order that its special aptitudes should find their full natural development. We should aim at creating free men and women, free intellectually, free morally, unprejudiced in all respects, and above all things, unselfish. And we believe that much if not all of this could be obtained by proper and truly theosophical education.
H.P. Blavatsky: The key to theosophy p. 251/52

 Throughout the world, it is becoming more and more evident that the educator needs educating. It is not a question of educating the child, but rather the educator, for he needs it much more than the pupil. After all, the pupil is like a tender plant that needs guiding, helping; but if the helper is himself incapable, narrow, bigoted, nationalistic, and all the rest of it, naturally his product will be what he is. So it seems to me that the important thing is not so much the technique of what to teach, which is secondary; but what is of primary importance is the intelligence of the educator himself.
Krishnamurti, Educating the Educator, Bombay 1948

The first principle of true teaching
is that nothing can be taught.
The teacher is not an instructor or task master.
He is a helper and guide.
His business is to suggest and not to impose

The second principles is that the mind
has to be consulted in its own growth.
The idea of hammering the child
into the shape of desired by the parent
or teacher is barbarous
and ignorant superstition

The third principle of education
Is to work form the near to the far,
From that what is to that what shall be.
A free and natural growth is
the condition of genuine development.

Sri Aurobindo