Fables should be taught as ...

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
 Hypatia

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All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
 Hypatia