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BACK TO THE FUTURE

We are embarking on a challenging and fascinating project titled 'Back to the Future'.

The world has changed dramatically in the past few centuries, and there is no telling what will happen in the next few years.

Back to the Future is a student-teacher research project that will look at the history of inventions and discoveries in Science and Technology over the past few centuries and the last century, in particular, to understand what we can learn from their success and failures to predict the Future better.

For a long time in history, the effect of discoveries and innovations remained small and took a long time to spread to cause a change. But as technology evolved rapidly, so did its effects. Today the rate of change has reached a point where it is questionable whether the environment can sustain it.

In this journey, we will map significant changes in the evolution of science and technology from the moment early humans started using a stone or a branch as a tool to today's Artificial Intelligence assisted technologies.

Our objective is to study the major forces that have caused significant changes in the past and influenced the Future.

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Xploring Astronomy

We will be Xploring Deep Sky objects such as nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies with our new Unistellar eVscope, a compact yet powerful electronic Telescope for Deep Sky observation and Planetary observations with a Vixen VC200L Telescope.

Xplorers team Walden's Path School

Understanding Krishnamurti Educational Philosophy

“To understand a child we have to watch him at play, study him in his different moods; we cannot project upon him our own prejudices, hopes and fears, or mould him to fit the pattern of our desires. If we are constantly judging the child according to our personal likes and dislikes, we are bound to create barriers and hindrances in our relationship with him and in his relationships with the world. Unfortunately, most of us desire to shape the child in a way that is gratifying to our own vanities and idiosyncrasies; we find varying degrees of comfort and satisfaction in exclusive ownership and domination.⁠”

~ J. Krishnamurti⁠, ‘The Right Kind of Education’⁠, Education and The Significance of Life⁠.

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Understanding Krishnamurti Educational Philosophy - I

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia. This is especially true in colleges and universities. We are turning out, as if through a mould, a type of human being whose chief interest is to find security, to become somebody important, or to have a good time with as little thought as possible.

~ J Krishnamurti, Education and the Significance of Life
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“Education has no meaning unless it helps you to understand the vast expanse of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows and joys. You may earn degrees, you may have a series of letters after your name and land a very good job; but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid? So, while you are young, must you not seek to find out what life is all about? And is it not the true function of education to cultivate in you the intelligence which will try to find the answer to all these problems?”

~ J Krishnamurti, Education and the Significance of Life.

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The Walden School | Hyderabad, India

Think on these things:

"I do not know why we educate our children. We have never asked, perhaps, what is the intention, what is the meaning of education. Is it to turn out so many engineers, technicians, academicians, professors, specialists medically and otherwise? And apparently, that is what is happening - the cultivation of memory about facts, technologically educated, so that human beings throughout the world can earn a livelihood, settle down in a particular pattern of society, and totally, completely disregard the whole psychological structure of man. That is what is actually happening in the world: cultivate one fragment of the mind so that going through school, college and university, if one wants to, and learn sufficient information, facts, and act from that memory, skilfully or not. That is the pattern set for man in education. Right?"

~ J Krishnamurti, Ojai 1977

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“Where there is confusion there must be choice and being uncertain the choice gives you the direction, and to follow it you must resist every other form of influence. Now why are we confused? What is the reason, why is the mind so extraordinarily confused, about everything. By confused, we mean, uncertain between this and that, between this value and that value, between what you should do, which would be right, which will not bring great suffering, which will not bring about clutter and so on and on. And inwardly you have found you cannot rely on anybody, anything, on any idea, and so the mind is confused?

Are you aware that you are confused?"

~ J Krishnamurti, Public Discussion Saanen, 1973

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The Walden School Hyderabad

"Discipline means to learn, not to conform, not to suppress, not to imitate the pattern of what accepted authority considers noble. This is a very complex question for in it are involved several things: to learn, to be austere, to be free, to be sensitive, and to see the beauty of love. In learning there is no accumulation. Knowledge is different from learning. Knowledge is accumulation, conclusions, formulas, but learning is a constant movement. This very learning is its own discipline – you don’t have to discipline yourself and then learn. Surely some discipline is necessary – for instance, to sit decently, to eat properly, to speak with care? Without discipline one can’t perceive the beauties of music or literature or painting. Good manners and training reveal a great many nuances in daily social commerce."

~ J Krishnamurti, excerpt from the book The Urgency of Change.

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