This article is taken from Lifelong Learning Author: Krishnamurti Ignorant people are not uneducated people, but people who don't know themselves. Correct education. A learned man is stupid when he relies on books, knowledge and authority to gain understanding. Knowledge comes from self-knowledge, which is the whole psychological process for a person to know himself. So the real meaning of education is self-knowledge, because the whole life is gathered in each of us. At present, the education we are talking about is only gathering knowledge and experience through books, which anyone who knows how to read can do. This kind of education provides a clever way to escape from self. Like all other escape methods, it inevitably creates more and more pain. Conflicts and chaos are caused by our wrong relationship with others, things and ideas. Unless we understand this relationship and change it, only learning and accumulating knowledge and acquiring various skills will only lead us into deeper chaos and destruction. Although technical knowledge is important, it can't solve our inner pressure and psychological conflict; Technology has become a means of destruction because we have acquired technical knowledge and lack understanding of the whole process of life. A man who knows how to split atoms without love in his heart has become a horrible monster. We choose a career according to our ability; However, can engaging in a profession save us from conflict and chaos? It seems necessary to train a certain skill; But what happens when we all become engineers, physicists and accountants? Is it life to engage in a profession? Obviously, most of us think so. Our profession can keep us busy for most of our lives; However, all kinds of things we create that fascinate us so much have just caused destruction and misfortune. Our attitude and values turn everything and career into tools of jealousy, pain and hatred. Correct education has nothing to do with any ideology-no matter what utopia this ideology guarantees the future; Correct education is not based on any theory-no matter how carefully it is conceived; Correct education is not a means to impose certain restrictions on individuals. The real education is to help individuals move towards maturity and freedom, and bloom in love and kindness. This is what we should care about, rather than molding children according to the ideal model.

Any method of classifying children according to their qualifications emphasizes the differences between children, which leads to opposition, promotes factional division in society and cannot cultivate complete individuals. Obviously, no method or theory can provide correct education, and clinging to a certain method shows the laziness of education. Once education is based on rigid principles, it can produce efficient men and women, but it cannot cultivate creative people. Only love can lead to understanding of others. With love, we can communicate with others at the same level at the same time. Because our own thoughts are dry and empty, there is no love, so we leave the policies of children's education and life to the government and socialism. However, the government needs efficient experts, not "people", because "people" is a threat to the government-for organized religion, "people" is also a threat. This is why the government and organized religions should try to control education. The biggest task of education is to cultivate a complete person who can handle life as a whole. A theorist, like an expert, doesn't care about the whole, he only cares about a certain part. As long as a person pursues a certain theoretical model, he is incomplete; However, most teachers who insist on theory ignore love, and their hearts are shriveled and heartless. In order to study children, one must be alert, careful and conscious, which requires greater wisdom than encouraging children to follow a theory. Another task of education is to create new values. Just putting the existing value in the child's mind and making him conform to the theory is limiting the child, not awakening his wisdom. Education is closely related to the current world crisis. Educators who understand the causes of world riots should ask themselves how to awaken students' wisdom and help the new generation not to create conflicts and disasters. Educators must devote all their thoughts, care and love, create a correct environment, cultivate wisdom, and let children handle their life problems with wisdom in the process of growing up. However, to do this, educators must know themselves rather than rely on various ideologies, theories or beliefs. The correct education lies in understanding the real child (what kind of child he is), not imposing what we think he should be. Besieging him in the framework of "theory" is to encourage him to obey. This will breed fear and create a constant conflict between "his true face" and "what he should be" in the child's mind; And all inner conflicts will be exposed to society. Theory is a realistic obstacle for us to understand children and children's self-understanding. A parent who really wants to know his children doesn't look at them through some kind of ideal curtain. If he loves children, he will observe them and study their tendencies, temperament and characteristics. Only when a person doesn't love children will an ideal be imposed on them, because in this way, because children are required to be such a person or such a person, a person's ambition will be realized through children. If a person loves a child instead of a theory, then it is possible to help the child understand the true self. For example, if a child lies, what's the use of putting the theory of "honesty" before him? We must find out why he lied. In order to help a child, we must spend time studying him and observing him-this requires patience, love and care. However, once we have no love and understanding, then we will force our children to enter what we call the ideal mode of action. Theory is a convenient way to escape, and the teacher who follows it can't understand his students or deal with their problems wisely. For such teachers, futurism, "how" is more important than the children in front of them. The pursuit of theory excludes love, but without love, any problems related to people can't be solved. The right teacher will not rely on a certain educational method, he will study every individual student. Our relationship with children and adolescents is not a machine that can be quickly repaired, but a living person, easily influenced, changeable, sensitive, fearful and affectionate. To deal with their problems, we must have deep understanding, patience and the power of love. When we lack these things, we turn to quick and simple remedies, hoping to get magical and inevitable results. If we are unconscious, if our attitudes and actions are mechanized, we will shrink back from those embarrassing problems that cannot be solved by mechanical answers, which is a major problem in our education. A child is a dual product of the past and the present, so he is restricted. If we pass on our environmental background to him, we will make his limitations and ours exist forever. Only when we understand our limitations and get rid of them can we make fundamental changes. If we are still restricted, it is no good talking about what is the right education. If we want to help our children get rid of their various ways of existence, which have caused too much pain, then each of us will begin to change our attitude towards children and our relationship with them. Parents and educators, through their own thoughts and actions, can help children to be free and make them bloom like flowers of love and kindness. Nowadays, education does not encourage people to understand the influence of genetic tendency and environment, which limits their minds and keeps their fears. So this kind of education can't help us break through these restrictions and become a complete person.

Any kind of education will inevitably lead to more and more conflicts and pains if it only pays attention to a part of human beings, rather than all non-human beings. Love and kindness can only be fully developed when individuals are free; Only the right education can provide this freedom. Obedience to the existing society or expectation of a utopia in the future can't make an individual get this understanding-if a person doesn't have this understanding, he will continue to create problems. A correct educator who knows what inner freedom is can help every individual student to observe and understand his own values and coercive behaviors imposed on him; He helps students realize the influence of limiting his and his own wishes, both of which will breed fear. When a student grows up, educators help him understand himself by observing his relationship with everything. Because, what causes endless contradictions and sadness is the desire to realize oneself.