Krishnamurti

I am happy we were assigned this exert. I enjoyed reading it. Eventhough, I wans't a big fan of Krishnamurti tone, I have to admit that any text that really makes me think and wonder is a text that I enjoy. I realized after reading this how lucky I am to have expeineced a different world. In Denmark the value of eduation is truely to learn about the world, and society you live in. In school, you learn about yourself and how your brain functions. There are not very many tests and no grades until you are much older. Competetion is not a huge factor. As a child, living in what people in the US. call a socialist country, I was tought that everyone is equal and that everyone had a fair chance in life to become happy. There wasn't that much emphasis on winners vs. losers. Therefore I felt a bit attacked by the way the exert was written. I agree with Krishnamurti, so I wish that he hadn't written it expecting me to be the people he is writing about. The people who live their life on autopilot, and don't value life's true beauty. Honestly the exert also made me a little sad because as much as I want to rebel and not be afraid and not compete or feel like a failure whenI don't get a good gradeon a paper- I still do. How do I get out of this? do I want to get out of this? I still want to be the best, and I still want to fear things because then when I don't anymore I feel strong, stronger than other people, and I like that feeling.