ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on "education" represents an example of philosophical thinking more than it does an attempt at a "philosophy of education" grounded in Heidegger. It introduces Heidegger's various uses and meanings of Ge-stellas found in "The Question Concerning Technology" and the "Origin", respectively. The chapter considers what Heidegger says about "reflective thought" in "The Age of the World Picture", and this notion of "reflection". It provides Basic Concepts and Discourse on Thinking as related to "meditative" thinking and the human's relationship to Being as an educational phenomenon, as a form of inquiry. The nature or truth of Being, in the counter-striving phenomenon of concealement and unconcealment, which calls for the releasement Gelassenheit and openness to the mystery of all things. The chapter presents the potential implications of Heidegger's approach to meditative inquiry for a reconceived understanding of "learning" that lives beyond the technical constraints of instrumentalism in standardized education.
