How we know is as important as what we know. However, contemporary pedagogy and
curriculum generally excludes a fundamental way of knowing–the contemplative–from any
viable role in education in favor of a rational and empirical approach. As a result, few
mainstream teachers or curriculum planners have explicitly integrated the contemplative into the
classroom. Yet contemplative knowing has been described as fundamental to the quest for
knowledge and wisdom and complementary to analytic processing. The present article offers
educators a rationale for returning the contemplative to education by summarizing research on
the impact of contemplation on learning and behavior. It then provides a range of specific
approaches for teachers that can be easily integrated into existing curriculum from elementary to
university levels. The result of such integration transforms learning and the learner while
impacting the very practical concerns of mainstream education