Philosopher Martha Nussbaum issued a stark warning about what the world would look like if the humanities and arts continued to be eliminated from education. She described a future where education focused solely on profitability would produce a greedy obtuseness and a technically trained docility that threatened the very life of democracy. Quoting Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, who observed in 1917 that the demands of the global economy were causing 'the moral man, the complete man' to give way to 'the commercial man, the man of limited purpose,' Nussbaum called this trajectory nothing less than 'a suicide of the soul.' She challenged Connecticut College graduates to fight for the survival of liberal arts education.