TY  - BOOK
AU  - Conrad P. Pritscher
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1058-1634
TI  - Einstein and Zen
T2  - Learning to Learn
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1106275
N2  - 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.
KW  - free schools, consciousness, learning, brain research, open inquiry, not knowing, Einsteinian mind opener, Einstein, philosophy, education, awareness, Zen, present experience, training, self-directedness
LA  - English
ER  -