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Einstein and Zen: Learning to Learn

Einstein and Zen: Learning to Learn

Pritscher, Conrad P.
Steinberg, Shirley R.

Paperback

Series: Counterpoints, Book 384

PhilosophyGeneral EducationGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1433108704
ISBN13: 9781433108709
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Published: Dec 16 2009
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book makes a strong case for free schooling, comparing the mind of Albert Einstein - who said much - to Zen conscious practice, which says little but encompasses everything. Examining the work of brain researchers, neuroscientists, physicists, and other scholars to illuminate the commonalities between Einstein's thought and the Zen practice of paying attention to one's present experience, the book reveals their many similarities, showing the development of self-direction as a key to fostering compassionate consideration of others and to harmonious, semi-effortless learning and living. Examples demonstrate that students who choose to study what is interesting, remarkable, and important for them tend to become more like Einstein than students with the rigid school curricula; students who are free to learn often demonstrate empathy, and less rigid rule-following, while involved in the process of imaginatively becoming their own oracles and self-educators.

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