ABSTRACT
The educational landscape in India and the kinds of historical and social challenges to Krishnamurti’s educational vision need to be understood in order to appreciate the challenges that are faced by his schools. The colonial citizen has been produced and reproduced through the advent of ‘modern’ education in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that emphasised a particular frame that sought to perfect the individual through moral education and civic education. Education as socialisation is actually about how the ‘self’ is constituted in relation to the world, and how school reproduces society through the organisation and content of the curriculum and through discursive modes of interaction and communication. School education in India is also fraught with many difficulties of access to schools by all children regardless of caste, religion, or gender, their retention, availability, and quality of teachers, among other factors.
