H.P. Lovecraft on teaching the controversy
This is a fake quote contributed by commenter Lex Lata on Why Evolution Is True but it exemplifies one reason why so many of us oppose the teaching of “controversy” to pre-college age students.
“I’m not suggesting that children be exposed solely to the shuddersome knowledge of vast, entropic dimensions behind and beyond known spacetime, from which will skitter and ooze and swoop vile, deathless, gibbering, vulgar ungods that might notice humanity only long enough to devour our skins and spinal columns as they defile the very atoms of our world. I just think we should teach the controversy.”
–H.P. Lovecraft