Martha Nussbaum

Nations of technically trained people who don't know how to criticize authority, useful profit-makers with obtuse imaginations.

Imagination is cultivated, above all, by courses in the arts and humanities. It is in some ways the most essential of all, if we are to work toward a world in which we see distant lives as spacious and deep.

The humanities and the arts only do what is much more precious than making money: they make a world that is worth living in.