Ethics within a spiritual/metaphysical world view towards integral Value-Based education: J. Krishnamurti and theosophy at the junction of the west and the east

As it would be the case for Steiner, Hegel or R. Tagore, the humanistic dimension of Krishnamurti's educational philosophy must be properly comprehended within a world view that is deeply spiritual-not materialistic or utilitarian as in mainstream schooling-. This remarkable sage has been sometimes misunderstood-more often in Western countries than in India-. He was not an anarchist at all, nor some kind of Voltaire. He was a mystic “strictu sensu”; we try to show it in this paper as clearly as possible, which means that the humanistic dimension of his educational philosophy stems from that inner spirituality that we can truly call mystical, and that is obviously essential to the philosophical and pedagogic concerns of Plato or Steiner, Autobindo or Tagore-and even Hegel. We hope that this article will arise the interest and awareness of the reader to pursue further inquiry. This paper brings out the observation from the direct field work together with the academic study throughout these twenty years devoted to integral value education in an international horizon East/West.