“Fable should be taught as fable, myth as myth, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truth is horrifying. The mind of a child accepts them, and only through great pain — perhaps tragedy — can the child be relieved of them. Men will fight for superstition as quickly as for the living truth — even more so, since a superstition is intangible: You can’t get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.” —Hypatia of Alexandria (370-415 BCE), astronomer, mathematician, and teacher