I found this essay to be much more entertaining for the final. I found it was a good choice and I felt like I could write over ten pages with all of the dissectable points the author made throughout. I also did fancy the author's name, Nussbaum. It reminded me of a funny from an old TV show.
Nussbaum focuses on the detriments of fear and ignorance and how their application in American education calls for the need for liberal education. However, seeing as Nussbaum does not go much into the negatives of liberal education it can be said that her stance is biased and her essay is a form of propaganda.
Nevertheless Nussbaum makes some solid points as to why liberal education should be strengthened. I found these points easy to recognize as Brooklyn College is a liberal arts school and my very own english class is filled with assignments that demand me to write outside of what I already know. In order to take an educated stance on a topic I must first inform myself of the opposition and then weigh out the pros and cons of both sides before I can be truly satisfied with my stance. In this sense, liberal education helps promote mutual understanding and instill a sense of humanity in people. A sense of humanity that will allow people to understand that a terrorist organization is not representative of an entire group of people. An understanding that will compel people to search for the information that the media does not provide. This understanding, this humanity is what adolescents truly need to receive from American higher education in order to become adults who can tackle such critical problems in the world.
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