Not For Profit Martha Nussbaum Summary

Not for Profit is made up of seven chapters and each chapter is reinforcing and strengthening the author’s main arguments. Martha Nussbaum’s work revolves around a call for the rescue of educational system on a global scale, particularly issues relating to promotion of knowledge, skills, and personalities necessary for a democratic citizenship. Earlier in her work, she articulates that, “We are in the midst of a crisis of massive proportions and grave global significance…No, I mean a crisis that goes largely unnoticed, like a cancer; a crisis that is likely to be, in the long run, far more damaging to the nature of democratic self-government: a worldwide crisis in education” (p.1-2). After her projection of these problems to the world, she further points out the sources to these problems in the area of social, economic, and intellectual developments that in one way or the other are overseeing the educational …show more content…
She makes her stand clear on the issues of profit in educational system by arguing that education for profit must not be alone without a consideration for education for democracy. Nussbaum makes vital suggestion of how nations that are key to promoting humane, people-sensitive democracy needs to invest more on opportunities for life, liberty and pursuit of happiness for each and every countryperson. Her recommendations incorporate the skills that would make the citizenry critical about the political issues affecting their nations; to see every citizen as equal being before themselves and the law regardless of their gender and sexuality, religion and race; and to understand and examine the quality of life and how the position of leadership contributes to the success and failure of