In the last year of the twentieth century, voters elected group of Kansas school board members who supported the removal of the concept of evolution from the state’s science curriculum, an act that indicated the extent to which evolutionary ideas could incite intense emotional, if not irrationalopposition on the part of unenlightened laymen. Retrospec-tively appalled by their prior action, in the following yearKansan voters rescinded their perverse judgment and chosenew board members who intended to restore the concept. The theory of evolution was reinstated not because theelectors of Kansas, a most conservative and religious state, suddenly became agnostic, but because they realized thatrejecting the idea would deny their children the necessity ofremaining in touch with one of the fundamentals of modernscience; they realized that this could, in effect, allow theirchildren to fall behind, to be bereft of a basic science, and to be both a misinformed and misguided generation.

Ram Kumar Singh (Born on 23th April, 1972 at Muzaffarpur, Bihar) has served as a professor for 16 years. He received M.A. (Psy.), M.Ed., PhD (Education), from B. R. Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur, Bihar. He possesses a brilliant academic record in two disciplines— Education and Psychology. He has written a number of books which have been published in New Delhi and prescribed by various Universities for use by B.Ed. students and other graduate and postgraduate students of Education.