Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Student: Sir, you said you must change the world. How can you change it, sir? Krishnamurti: What is the world? The world is where you live - your family, your friends, your neighbours. And your family, your friends, your neighbours can be extended and that is the world. Now, you are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself?
The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.
Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.
We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being.
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