Join 📚 Izzy's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Izzy's read, .
Proteins can’t exist without DNA, and DNA has no purpose without proteins. Are we to assume then that they arose simultaneously with the purpose of supporting each other? If so: wow.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
This reality is why some advocates point out that leaving educational equity up to individual choice — or more accurately, to those who are economically advantaged enough to have choice — is a way for the government to punt responsibility for creating an egalitarian system; one where children’s education is a game that everyone wins, not a select few.
How School Boundaries and Feeder Patterns Shape DC’s Housing and Education Inequalities
Abigail Higgins
He had no hope of joy. He had bungled that, he thought. But he knew that the two long, intense disciplines that had filled his life, that of the gods and that of history, had given him an uncommon knowledge, which might be of use somewhere; and he knew that the right use of knowledge is fulfillment.
Five Ways to Forgiveness
Ursula K. Le Guin
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise