ABSTRACT
A chapter entitled “Spirituality and Knowing” in a National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook suggests a new direction in the continuing dialogue between traditions of education and traditions of religion in the United States. For several decades educators in the United States have made efforts to distance their work from its origins in Christian, primarily Protestant, traditions. For instance, the McGuffey and New England readers were replaced by reading textbooks informed by the newly developing psychology of learning. Thus began the merger of the traditions of education and those of the scientific and technical enterprises, culminating in the symbiotic relationship of the testing industry and the traditions of schooling.
