A comparative study on educational philosophies pertaining to Krisanamurati and Phradhammakosacaraya (Buddhadasa Bhikkhu)

Abstract

The purposes of the thesis were : 1) to study conceptsthe educational philosophies pertaining to Krisanamurati, 2) to study conceptsthe educational philosophies pertaining to Phradhammakosacaraya (Buddhadasa  Bhikkhu)pursue, 3) to compare study on educational philosophies pertaining to Krisanamurati and Phradhammakosacaraya (Buddhadasa  Bhikkhu).

           The research yields the underlying results: Meaning of education in their educational philosophies has the same issue in that education is developing one’s life for the highest goal, having one’s life experience both internal and external freedom to become a perfect human being, enabling each to share common feelings and actually touching them directly, The correct education is learning through one’s whole life for the sake of unity. In their aims of education, both krisnamurati and Venerable Buddhadasa point out that education and life are the same matter; they have the same opinion in two issues of education and life, namely education for gaining knowledge in different domains culminating in garnering academic and technological competency, and education for bringing about change to become a perfect huma being. Each of which they consider education and life as the real education. Obviously, their educational philosophies stress perils of current education that it is just the matter of collecting data and knowledge out of texts. According to their opinions in so doing, they demand education develop human beings to become perfect ones, which is the highest aim of education, In Krisanamurati’s view, the perfect human being is yet to collect knowledge and yet to explore one’s internal life. Generally, human beings are of education and life together, i.e. having known his/her own self, having correct relation with others, having thoughts and coping with all things with consciousness and wisdom. Even in Venerable Buddhadasa Bhikkhu’s view, it has the similar issue in that the perfect human being must live his/her life through wisdom, having one’s life capable of having relation with the nature in harmony.

           Their aim of education is correlated in that it put the emphasis on bringing about changing one to become a perfect human being, which they both consider it as the actual education. In stark difference, Krisnamurati’s education emphasizing the development of changing a human being to become the perfect one is of a different method by keeping observing things with that actually occur inside one’s thoughts. To put it simply, it is the study by keeping observing data, but without collecting them. In Venerable Buddhadasa Bhikkhu’s view, he presents the method of the study that generates internal knowledge called “Yonisomanasikara”, Proper Attention, that is, studying life and all things by having a thorough method of systematic attention in one’s thought.