“Passion is wholly different from lust, interest or enthusiasm.
Interest in something can be very deep and you can use that interest
for profit or for power, but that interest is not passion. Interest
may be stimulated by an object or by an idea. Interest is self-
indulgence. Passion is free of the self. Enthusiasm is always about
something. Passion is a flame of itself. Enthusiasm can be aroused by
another, something outside of you. Passion is the summation of energy
which is not the outcome of any kind of stimulation. Passion is beyond
the self.

Have the teachers this sense of passion? – for out of this comes
creation. In teaching subjects one has to find new ways of
transmitting information without this information making the mind
mechanical. Can you teach history – which is the story of mankind –
not as the Indian, the English, American and so on, but as the story
of man which is global? Then the educator’s mind is always fresh,
eager, discovering a wholly different approach to teaching. In this
the educator is intensely alive and with this aliveness goes passion.

Can this be done in all our schools? – for we are concerned with
bringing about a different society, with the flowering of goodness,
with a nonmechanistic mind. True education is this, and will you, the
educators, undertake this responsibility? In this responsibility lies
the flowering of goodness in yourself and in the student. We are
responsible for the whole of mankind – which is you and the student.
You have to start there and cover the whole earth. You can go very far
if you start very near. The nearest is you and your student. We
generally start with the farthest – the supreme principle, the
greatest ideal, and get lost in some hazy dream of imaginative
thought. But when you start very near, with the nearest, which is you,
then the whole world is open, for you are the world and the world
beyond you is only nature. Nature is not imaginary: it is actual and
what is happening to you now is actual. From the actual you must begin
– with what is happening now – and the now is timeless.”

(Krishnamurti in Letters to the Schools I, 1st June, 1979)