J. Krishnamurti refused to be anointed as Maitreya Buddha, the World Teacher, instead engaged in socratic explorations with students, teachers and curious minds on human consciousness and fundamentals of living. He professed that universal well-being can only manifest through strong education that inculcates attention, affection and awareness - before a human falls into man-made traps and submits to conditioning.
We are inspired by his optimism in envisioning an undivided human existence, where there is supreme co-operative intelligence and education as the best way to try and achieve it.
Education is not the right word, but we have to use it to convey a meaning that implies the real cultivation of the human mind in all its relationships and activities. The cultivation of the mind and the heart is our responsibility.
The student comes already conditioned, and from that conditioning his reactions are his temperament, his peculiarity, his desire to fulfil. So the educator, who is also conditioned with his own peculiarities, in his responsibility of relationship to the student must be aware of his own limitations as well as those of the student; so both are educating themselves together.
If the educator is disorderly in his private life, and outwardly assumes an orderly life, his word has no significance. When he tells the student to be orderly, he becomes a hypocrite. So the educator needs education as well as the student. This is the principle action- that both are learning-and so the spirit of authority doesn’t enter at all into this relationship. When this is clearly and deeply understood, then one has to establish a relationship in which compulsion and conformity cease altogether.
SocratiQ explorations allow students to experience learning without authority, coercion, compulsion or conformity. A natural discourse with another intelligence (flawed sometimes but useful nevertheless), without any inherent desire to impose authority, that takes the learner through a journey of discovery through deep questioning, unbounded by “subjects”.