The Kansas evolution policy attacks the essence of education: The teaching of facts and reasoning, not feelings or faiths.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: August 23, 1999| Author: Tracinski, Robert W. | Copyright information

The essence of education is the teaching of facts and reasoning skills to our children, so that they learn how to think.

Yet for almost a century, our schools have been under assault by an approach to education that elevates feelings over facts. Under the influence of Progressive Education, ``socialization'' _ getting the student in touch with other children's feelings _ is now more important than getting him in touch with the facts of history, mathematics or geography. ...

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