An education is truly fitted for freedom – Martha Nussbaum
Author : Martha Nussbaum
As an undergraduate, I studied the Greek and Roman classics, and I went to graduate school in classics intending to work on the presentation of moral issues in various Greek and Roman tragedies. – Martha Nussbaum
My high school did not offer courses in philosophy, so the books that initially stimulated philosophical reflection in me were novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. – Martha Nussbaum
Knowledge is not a guarantee of good political behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior. – Martha Nussbaum
American men do have genuine reasons for anxiety. The traditional jobs that many men have filled are disappearing, thanks to automation and outsourcing. The jobs that remain require, in most cases, higher education, which is increasingly difficult for non-affluent families to afford. – Martha Nussbaum
If people think that women only wear the burqa because of coercive pressure, let them create ample opportunities for them, at the same time enforce laws making primary and secondary education compulsory, and then see what women actually do. – Martha Nussbaum