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Education, Income Inequality and the Right to Participate in Cultural Life

Anton Chekhov said that art “prepares us for tenderness” (Saunders 2004). Taking the idea a step further, Martha Nussbaum maintains that the arts and humanities teach what it is, “to be a human being capable of love and imagination” (Nussbaum 2002, 301). Both suggest arts and humanities open us up to what it means to be citizens in an open, democratic society. In that sense, access to an education that meaningfully includes the arts and humanities is instrumental to the fulfillment of Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which asserts that “[e]veryone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community.” But to what extent does that access – and the guarantee …

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