Sloane Mak's List: Jiddu Krishnamurthi

• students are able to see their own role in transformation.
• Societal change comes from the collective transformation of the individuals within that society. Literacy allows people, particularly those who are marginalized and discriminated against in society, to acquire a “critical consciousness”. 
• Empowered individuals are better equipped to question and critique societal realities and assumptions and more enabled to change their situation.
• individuals can be taught that they are actually co-creators of their reality. 
• Paulo Freire (1921 - 1997),
• learners must understand their own reality as part of their learning activity.
• Aurobindo commented that the students would “take down everything verbatim and mug it up by heart.  Such a thing would never have happened in England”
• He noticed that his students were more concerned with getting the correct information in order to pass the university examinations rather than gain a full understanding and appreciation of the material (Heehs 1989).  This is not unlike what is happening today in developing countries. 
• with the transformation and growth of the individual, society would in turn transform and evolve.
• • If this is more possible in India than in Malaysia then I will go. 
• Aurobindo hoped to help create a new Indian society by teaching people how to learn for themselves and trust themselves and develop their own inherent potential.
• “conceived of education as an instrument for the real working of the spirit in the mind and body of the individual and the nation.
• Aurobindo’s educational model of Free Progress
• help the child to develop his intellectual, emotional, moral, spiritual and physical being out of their own capacities in a participatory manner and at their own pace (Aurobindo 2001).
• The role of the teacher here is to guide a student to learn for themselves. 
• The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
• His business is to suggest and not to impose’
• The second principle according to Aurobindo is that ‘the mind has to be consulted in its growth’
• The teacher should be concerned not with what the student remembers, but what he understands
• Gandhi’s educational views were twofold: On one hand, education was necessary to prepare Indians for self rule, the preservation of Indian culture and the service of humanity.   On the other hand education is seen as a method for self-realization and personal development and attainment of knowledge for learning’s sake.
• developing a wholesome human personality capable of resisting war, violence, injustice and oppression and building a social order wherein man can live in peace and harmony with others
• communities to be self sufficient and learn to make the best of what they have.
• freedom of human beings
• schools must be self-supporting, as far as possible, for two reasons. One was purely financial: namely, that a poor society could not provide education to all its children unless schools could generate the physical and financial resources to run them. The other was political: that financial self-sufficiency alone could protect schools from dependence on the State and from interference by it
• partnership model of education

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