TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nussbaum,Martha Craven
TI  - Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities 
T2  - The public square book series
SN  - 069117332X
AV  - LC1011 .N88 2016
U1  - 370.11/5 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Education, Humanistic
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Democracy and education
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-162) and index; The Silent Crisis -- Education for Profit, Education for Democracy -- Educating Citizens : The Moral (and Anti-Moral) Emotions -- Socratic Pedagogy : The Importance of Argument -- Citizens of the World -- Cultivating Imagination : Literature and the Arts -- Democratic Education on the Ropes -- Afterword to the Paperback edition : Reflections an the Future of the Humanities - at Home and Abroad
N2  - In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry in the United States and abroad. We increasingly treat education as though its primary goal were to teach students to be economically productive rather than to think critically and become knowledgeable, productive, and empathetic individuals. This shortsighted focus on profitable skills has eroded our ability to criticize authority, reduced our sympathy with the marginalized and different, and damaged our competence to deal with complex global problems. And the loss of these basic capacities jeopardizes the health of democracies and the hope of a decent world. In response to this dire situation, Nussbaum argues that we must resist efforts to reduce education to a tool of the gross national product. Rather, we must work to reconnect education to the humanities in order to give students the capacity to be true democratic citizens of their countries and the world. Drawing on the stories of troubling--and hopeful--educational developments from around the world, Nussbaum offers a manifesto that should be a rallying cry for anyone who cares about the deepest purposes of education
ER  -