Essence of Education翻译译文-2017年10月.doc

Essence of Education教育的本质 Robery W. Tracinki The essence of education is the teaching of facts and reasoning skills to our children, so that they learn to think. 教育的本质是向我们的孩子们教授事实和推理的技能，让他们学会思考。 2. Yet 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 -- It is now more important than getting him in touch with the facts of history, mathematics or geography.然而几乎一个世纪以来，我们的学校都在受到一种将感受凌驾于事实之上的教育方法的攻击。在进步教育的影响下——让学生了解历史事实、数学或地理都不如感觉重要。 Note: elevate v. to make more important or to improve e.g. They want to elevate the status of teachers. 3. Creative spelling-- in which students are encouraged to spell words in whatever way they feel is correct - is more important than the rules of language. Urging children to feel good about themselves is more important than ensuring that they acquire the knowledge necessary for living successfully.“创造性的拼写”——鼓励学生以任何他们感觉正确的方式拼写单词—这比语言规则更加重要。鼓励孩子们对自己“感觉良好”比确保他们获得顺利生活所必需的知识更为重要。 4. This emotion-centered, anti-reason assault on education has found a new ally: those who believe the literal words of the Bible. The Kansas Board of Education has just excised the theory of evolution from the states official science standards. Several other states have enacted similar anti-evolution policies, thereby elevating the feeling of religious fundamentalists over the accumulated evidence of the entire science of biology.这种以情绪为中心、反对理性的对教育的攻击已经找到了新的同盟军：那些相信圣经上文学词汇的人。堪萨斯州教育理事会刚刚推翻了该州官方科学标准中的进化论。几个其他的州已经颁布了相似的反对进化政策，从而将宗教原教旨的感受凌驾于整个生物科学所累积的证据之上。 Note: Ally n. a person or organization that cooperates with or helps another in a particular activity. Excise v. to remove as if by cutting e.g. The official censors have excised the controversial sections of the report. 5. These policies do not actually ban the teaching of evolution, nor do they mandate the teaching of “Creationism” ----biblical claim t