Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies.
Philosophers
Hypatia
A Neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician in late-fourth-century Alexandria. She taught across faiths until murdered by a mob in 415 AD, becoming a lasting symbol of intellectual freedom's value and cost.
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For thinking and Being are the same.
-- Parmenides
Educate the children and it will not be necessary to punish the men.
-- Pythagoras
To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.
-- Hypatia
Blue dye is extracted from the indigo plant, yet it is bluer than indigo itself.
-- Xunzi
The course of Heaven is constant: it does not prevail because of Yao, nor does it cease because of Jie.
-- Xunzi
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
-- Confucius