Livesmatter survey 2023: we find it strange how little awareness of knowledge Einstein gave us is actually used by humans today as we race to map good enough connections to prevent extinction - did you for example ever hear that he shared his knowhow in latin america by visiting (Pope Franci's) Argentina presumably quite a lot of diary tome in 1920s OURNAL ARTICLE
A Convergence of Interests: Einstein's Visit to Argentina in 1925
if you have an underknown sighting of Einstein's gift to the world please post it in chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk related cooperation spaces www.mathsdaos.com http://neumann.ning.com www.economistdiary.com
educators and students dont need to work through the theory of einstein maths to learn from his biggest life lessons - his lesson with gandhi is main topic of this post;
other lessons include:1 mans science always approximation down to how local/micro data is integrated into way the science deduces; this has become relevant wherever man on a global scale is competing with nature's whose deep learning rules will define species futures- more generally e'd particularly love to here of anyone scaling photosynthesis solutions; it seems to us but from 1 accident to timing (eg Einstein furious with himself for early publication of nuclear research) , photosynthesis races would have got as much gov r&d sponsorship as atomic races chris.macare@yahoo.co.uk
2 einstein failed us and most western edu system as wholly distracting from helping kids love cooperating and early emotional intel - from 1920s while in Europe einstein hosted dialogues on international cooperation before deciding he better move to princeton to stay out of orbits of hitler and stalin.-Quite how his cooperation networks later got rebranded unesco is one of humanity's tragedies- I lived in Paris for 8 yeras and admire many French insights but unesco as likely leader of youth to be sustainability generation through digital innovation/cooperation is not worth a fork let alone a triple star rating
“Mahatma Gandhi's life achievement stands unique in political history. He has invented a completely new and humane means for the liberation war of an oppressed country, and practiced it with greatest energy and devotion. The moral influence he had on the consciously thinking human being of the entire civilized world will probably be much more lasting than it seems in our time with its overestimation of brutal violent forces. Because lasting will only be the work of such statesmen who wake up and strengthen the moral power of their people through their example and educational works. We may all be happy and grateful that destiny gifted us with such an enlightened contemporary, a role model for the generations to come.” by 1931 ganhi was politely telling londoners that their colonial power were siphoning away 80% of india's economy -Everything including education, sanitation and health etc had to be managed with the rest of 20 per cent.
https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2018/09/real-true-facts-einstein-admiration-for-mahatma-gandhi/
Albert Einstein, is considered as one of the greatest minds in the world who played a major role in revolutionising modern Science. His admiration for Mahatma can be seen clearly in a letter he addressed to Mahatma Gandhi, in the year 1931, praising his methods. Gandhi remained an important influence on Einstein’s life and thoughts.
Gandhi’s concept of satyagraha can be defined as a devotion to truth. This concept appealed to Einstein greatly. The primary reason behind this is its principled ground against political expediency and for the type of moral commitment that depends on self-scrutiny and an inquiry into cause and effect. Similar to the counter-intuitive theories of Einstein, Mark Shepard (who wrote the biography of Mahatma Gandhi) defines satyagraha as a hard to grasp concept, especially for those who are used to seeing power in the barrel of a gun.
Known to be a conservative, Albert Einstein had expressed profound regret after publishing an equation that encouraged the development of the nuclear bomb. He also addressed a letter to the US President Franklin Roosevelt, informing him about the risks associated with nuclear bombs.
EINSTEIN ON AMERICAN FAILING LIVESMATTER 1946Einstein aco-chaired an anti-lynching campaign and issued a scathing condemnation of racism during a speech he gave in 1946 at Philidelphia's Lincoln College, the alma mater of Langston Hughes and Thurgood Marshall in which he called racism “a disease of white people.” That same year, notes On Being’s executive editor Trent Gilliss, Einstein “penned one of his most articulate and eloquent essays advocating for the civil rights of black people in America.” Titled “The Negro Question” and published in the January 1946 edition of Pageant magazine, the essay, writes Gilliss, “was intended to address a primarily white readership.”
Einstein begins by answering the inevitable objection, “What right has he to speak about things which concern us alone, and which no newcomer should touch?” To this, the famed physicist answers, “I do not think such a standpoint is justified.” Einstein believed he had a unique perspective: “One who has grown up in an environment takes much for granted. On the other hand, one who has come to this country as a mature person may have a keen eye for everything peculiar and characteristic.” Speaking freely about his observations, Einstein felt “he may perhaps prove himself useful.”
Then, after praising the country’s “democratic trait” and its citizens’ “healthy self-confidence and natural respect for the dignity of one’s fellow-man,” he plainly observes that this “sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to men of white skins.” Anticipating a casually racist defense of “natural” differences, Einstein replies:
I am firmly convinced that whoever believes this suffers from a fatal misconception. Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man’s quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.
The ancient Greeks also had slaves. They were not Negroes but white men who had been taken captive in war. There could be no talk of racial differences. And yet Aristotle, one of the great Greek philosophers, declared slaves inferior beings who were justly subdued and deprived of their liberty. It is clear that he was enmeshed in a traditional prejudice from which, despite his extraordinary intellect, he could not free himself.
Like the ancient Greeks, Americans’ prejudices are “conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment.” And racist attitudes are both causes and effects of economic exploitation, learned behaviors that emerge from historical circumstances, yet we “rarely reflect” how powerful the influence of tradition is “upon our conduct and convictions.” The situation can be remedied, Einstein believed, though not “quickly healed.” The “man of good will,” he wrote, “must have the courage to set an example by word and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by this racial bias.”
Read the full essay at On Being, and learn more about Einstein’s committed anti-racist activism from Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor’s 2006 book Einstein on Race and Racism.
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