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Success and Failure. The Brutality of Education. The Cost to Children and Adults

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Education gives emphasis to persistant submission to the mind. This reflects itself in the amount of time pupils and students spend at their desk, week after week, from the moment their education begins. Acquisition and interpretation of knowledge take priority. …

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Our Beloved School, Bodh Gaya and the Virus

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Our beloved school, Prajna Vihar School (School Abiding in Wisdom) in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, has shut its doors to its 600 pupils in the nationwide lockdown in India.

The inter-religious school is situated a few minutes’ walk from the Tree of the Buddha’s awakening. Started with 20 children in 1992, the school depends on numerous small donations from the worldwide Sangha. …

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Does Oxford University qualify to be at the top of the Bad University Guide?

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This week (of 23 September, 2018), the Sunday Times (UK) issued the Good University Guide for 2019. The Guide gives a ranking to each university, offers a league table, details, cost of admission, performance, admission rates from deprived areas and local accommodation. …

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The Buddha, Spiritual Seekers, Parents and Young People

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The Buddha and his Meetings

with Spiritual Seekers, Parents and Young People

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 Background to the Buddha’s Meetings:

The Buddha engaged in numerous conversations with parents, children, teenagers, students, householders, and the elderly from secular society, as well as meetings with novices, monks, nuns, ascetics and priests in various religious and spiritual traditions in India around 2600 years ago. The discourses (suttas) also show the depth of inquiry of all ages and backgrounds taking place in northern India in that period of human history. …

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