J. Krishnamurti’s Letters to His Schools: The Whole Movement of Life Is Learning combines the letters originally published in Volume I (1981) and Volume II (1985) with seventeen previously unpublished letters from earlier years.

The collection explores education as the cultivation of the whole human being, with attention to learning and the flowering of both students and educators.

In the first of the letters, Krishnamurti said:

As I would like to keep in touch with the schools in India, Brockwood Park in England and the Oak Grove School in Ojai, California, I propose to write a letter every fortnight to them for as long as possible... I would very much like to write these letters to convey what the schools should be, to convey to all the people responsible for them that these schools are to be excellent academically, but much more. They are to be concerned with the cultivation of the total human being. These centres of education must help the student and the educator to flower.

Introducing the second volume of letters, Krishnamurti wrote:

These letters are not meant to be read casually when you have a little time from other things, nor are they to be treated as entertainment. These letters are written seriously and if you care to read them, read them with intent to study what is said as you would study a flower by looking at the flower very carefully--its petals, its stem, its colours, its fragrance and its beauty. These letters should be studied in the same manner, not read one morning and forgotten in the rest of the day. One must give time to it, play with it, question it, inquire into it without acceptance. Live with it for some time; digest it so that it is yours and not the writer's.

These letters offer material for inquiry by parents, educators, students of education, and others concerned about education and the full development of the human being.

Publisher: Krishnamurti Foundation India | Author: J. Krishnamurti | 260 pages | Paperback