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| "A school is a place where
one learns both the importance of knowledge and its irrelevance.
It is a place where one learns to observe the world without
a particular point of view or conclusion. One learns to look
at the whole of man's endeavor, his search for beauty, his search
for truth and a way of living that is not a contradiction between
conclusion and action. It is a place where both teacher and
the taught learn a way of life in which conflict ends."
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"It is the concern of these schools to bring about a new
generation of human beings who are free from self-centered action,
to bring about a mind that has no conflict within itself and so end
the struggle and conflict in the world about us." |
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| Vision |
A Krishnamurti School concerns itself with
education of the total human being. Knowledge and intellectual capability
alone are not sufficient to meet life’s challenges. Learning
to enquire, to observe oneself, to relate with other people and the
earth, is the core intention of the school.
A Krishnamurti School is a constantly
questioning, evolving institution, with the intention of creating
an environment, a climate where one can bring about, if at all possible,
a new human being. It is imperative therefore that parents and students
understand and appreciate the intention of the school and actively
participate in this movement.
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" The purpose, the aim and
drive of these schools is to equip the child with the most excellent
technological proficiency so that he may function with clarity
and efficiency in the modern world, and far more important to
create the right climate so that the child may develop fully
as a complete human being. This means giving him the opportunity
to flower in goodness so that he is rightly related to people,
things and ideas, to the whole of life. To live is to be related.
There is no relationship to anything if there is not the right
feeling for beauty, a response to nature, to music and art,
a highly developed aesthetic sense" |
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The vision with which the school works is
that a student who approaches the final years in school would
have developed
- a sense of integrity, dignity and confidence
to face life's challenges;
- a sensitivity to relate rightly to the earth
and to all life;
- an ability to learn on one's own and take responsibility
for learning;
- the capacity to make choices of future activities
in consonance with one's deepest predilections;
- the intelligence to remain
a sensitive human being with openness.
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Profile
The School was started in
the year 1973. Today it is a full-fledged day boarding, co-educational
school with students ranging from 3½ to 18 years of age,
with various distinctive programmes at all levels.
The school is located in a spacious campus in Adyar made available
by The Theosophical Society. This privileged location permits
rare opportunities to be with nature - ancient trees and vast
spaces, communicating a sense of beauty and silence.
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The school has an ambience that has been created
for meaningful, interactions between adults and students to happen.
The school has about 350 students and 35
teachers. |
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Founder
Jiddu
Krishnamurti was born on 11 May 2025 in a pious family of Madanappale
town in Andhra pradesh. He was adopted in his youth by Dr Annie Besant,
the President of the Theosophical Society, which had its international
headquarters at Madras. Dr Besant and others proclaimed that Krishnamurti
was to be the vehicle of the World Teacher, whose coming the Theosophists
had predicted. The World Teacher, according to various scriptures,
takes a human form time to time to bring salvation to mankind. To
prepare the world for the event, an organisation called the Order
of the Star in the East was formed in 1911 with the young Krishnamurti
as its head. In the same year, he was taken to England to be preivately
educated and trained for his future mission. |
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In 1922, Krishnamurti underwent
certain mystical experiences that altered his vision of life.
A few years later, he renounced the role that he was expected
to play, dissolved the Order with its huge following, and gave
up all money and property collected for this owrk. In a historic
speech in 1929, he explained why religious organisations cannot
lead man to Truth. He declared that his intentional was not
to found new religions but to set man unconditionally free. |
then, for more than fifty years, until his passing
away on 17 February 1986, he travelled all over the world giving public
talks and private interviews, speaking, writing, and holding dialogues,
not as a guru but as a lover of truth. These have been compiled into
several books, translated into all the major languages of the world,
and recorded on audio and videotapes.
Long
recognised as one of the world's foremost religious teachers, Krishnamurti
dedicated his life to awakening man to his own sorrow and the possibility
of freedom. Staying nowhere for more than a few months at a time,
he considered himself as not belonging to any country or religion.
Over the years, his annual gatherings at Ojai in California, Saanen
in Switzerland, Brockwood Park in England, and several cities in India
attracted thousands of people of different nationalities, occupations
and outlooks. He impressed upon his listeners the importance of self-knowledge,
as that alone would set them free from the bondage of theor conditioning
- from their prejudices, hurts, fears, loneliness, and sorrow. He
urged them to examine the workings of their own minds, and asked enduring
questions about the source of all problems, the nature of the human
mind, and the significance of creation itself. |
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| CURRICULUM OVERVIEW |
| The school is affiliated to the
Indian Council for Secondary Education. The students work with
a curriculum designed by the school from kindergarten to Class
VIII, after which they follow a syllabus prescribed by the Council
for the Indian School Certificate Examinations. English is the
medium of instruction. Tamil, Hindi and Sanskrit are the other
languages the students learn. |
School Trees
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REPORTS AND ACADEMIC EVALUATION:
Students' progress is assessed systematically
and continuously. Evaluation is comprehensive, non-comparative and
points to possibilities for growth. Parents receive reports twice
a year.
In September parents send a report to school on their children based
on the observation made at home. This report facilitates a joint awareness
and understanding of the child by the school and home.
Students take formal examinations from class VIII.
Students take the public examinations at the end of Tenth and Twelfth
standard. |
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ASSEMBLIES:
Every morning there is a 20 minutes assembly
for the students of class 5 and above, where the student and staff
come together to sing, chant, listen and share ideas. Every day, separate
assemblies are held for the Kindergarten and Junior School students.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION:
The School has a programme for physical
fitness of all students. Regular games periods are part of the schedule.
Additional opportunities to play football, basketball, volleyball
and frisbee are provided during the school day. Junior and Senior
Sports Days, inter-school matches, treks and camping form part of
the annual programme.
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NON ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES/EXTRACURRICULAR
ACTIVITIES:
Complete education is impossible
without sensorial learning and encouraging various forms of
expression. In Junior school, students learn a wide variety
of skills to express themselves creatively. In the later years,
students opt for activities which include art, weaving, clay
work, carpentry, vocal music, home-craft and dance. |
Weaving
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UNDERSTANDING RESPONSIBILITY :
Students are encouraged to accept and
share responsibility in various ways. Students from Class V and above
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Wash plates and set the dining hall in turn.
Clean their classrooms.
Do gardening or some kind of work on the school campus.
CULTURE CLASS:
Teachers and students hold discussions on themes relating to life
- on subjects of fear, pleasure, hurt, ambition, co-operation and
responsibility at various levels of understanding. The everyday experiences
of the children in the peer group, in class, at home, and from the
media, form contexts for such explorations. These discussions are
vital to the growth of the child. |
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Sports
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Sports
The
School has a programme for physical fitness of all students.
Regular games period are part of the schedule. Additional opportunities
to play football, basketball, volleyball and badminton are provided
during the school day. Junior and Senior Sports days, inter-school
matches, treks and camping form part of the annual programme |
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| Address |
| The School |
| Damodar Gardens, Besant avenue, Adyar, |
| Chennai - 600 020 |
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| Phone |
| Phone: +91-044-2491 5845, 24465144 |
| Email : [email protected] |
| Website :www.theschoolkfi.org |
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