Education For Benefit Of Education By Martha Nussbaum

All peoples should be informed and educated in a way that brings them together to understand the value, importance, and rights of all people. With this in hand, success can be easier as a community, society, and world. Rabindranath Tagore is an educator and author of the work “To Teachers” who believes in the free will and peace of students. He believes everyone should be viewed with the same value and that learning through the environment is particularly important. Martha Nussbaum, author of “Education for Profit, Education for Democracy”, believes that students are setup to fail by the modern day education classroom. Also, she believes a voice and equal treatment for all people is important. In the eyes of these authors, the educational system

As an educator, Tagore would teach in outdoor classrooms. He practiced this way of education because he concluded that the way of the modern day classroom only took away from students instead of giving to them. Tagore did not set a certain date or time for the class to adjourn, the class would disperse when themselves and Tagore felt as if they had fully comprehended and completed what they needed to. The goal of this method was to make students obtain information on a more significant level. Likewise, Nussbaum explains that the way in which we simply feed children information restricts them from thinking critically. Without the essential tool of critical thinking, Nussbaum fears for the future of politics. Critical thinking simply allows citizens to make informed, well thought out decisions. Without this aspect of thought, we must fear for the future. Do we want our society run and made up by uneducated, unqualified citizens? In the instance of a major decision for our country, or town, Tagore and Nussbaum believe educational background will serve as the basis of that choice. With well educated people, we are more prompt to make well educated

In Tagore’s eyes, knowledge is the ticket to freedom. Through the knowledge of new things, races will grow closer and new truths will be revealed. With the closeness of these groups, people can learn that, genuinely, we are all the same. Tagore explains that “we are building our institution upon the ideal of the spiritual unity of all races” (44). Knowledge, for Nussbaum, is the gateway to a legitimate, successful democracy. In order for all persons to have a say, it is important that all persons are informed on all aspect of an argument: thus, allowing said people to come to a well thought out agreement that is targeted toward the betterment of the society. If people all view each other as equal, then they will take all opinions as equal. Compare it to a college study group. Scientists believe study groups help because students come together as share different ideas about a topic, getting ideas and points that they might have missed when thinking about the topic on their own. This formulates the best possible understanding of said topic by obtaining every thought/idea about it and taking it into consideration. The same goes for society, once many different ideas come from many different people, we are left with the best understanding and solution to an issue. Altogether this leads back to Tagore and Nussbaum's ideas of teaching students the equality of all people early on, so that no ones say,