In teaching science, it is more important to help students to under-stand the scientific approach to life and develop a scientific temper than it is to impart scientific knowledge or train them in specific scientific techniques. While scientific knowledge and techniques may be useful to them in their career, the scientific approach to life has much wider ramifications as it is applicable to all aspects of life - social, economic, political and even the religious.

Krishnamurti pointed out that there are three great arts in education. They are listening, looking and learning. When you listen, you can either listen partially because you are preoccupied or because you carry certain prejudices which prevent you from listening completely. When you do listen completely, without any resistance, any prejudices, that is a complete act of learning. You listen to a sound; to silence. One day, years ago, I was walking along with Krishnamurti on El