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PSA: If you have a Bank of American credit or debit card, many museums are free the first full weekend of every month! More.
Preface: The ending of this interview with Roland Fryer on education reform brought me to tears.
As did this quote I just came across:
Wollstonecraft inveighed against marriage as the only means for women to “rise in the world,” which in turn reduced their aspirations to those of “mere animals” [sic] and made them act as children once they did enter this institution of wholesale dependency. What she called for instead — equal access to education and an emphasis on the intellectual and moral development of girls, rather than their looks, dress, and manners — seems banal by our present standards, almost embarrassing. The luxury of being embarrassed by it — in just five human lifetimes, in a species 7,500 generations old — is the measure of our progress.
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