Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
You live in a country that's marked by celebrity culture, you know, that basically infantilizes people, paralyzes them, eliminates all notions of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The Obama administration doesn't see schools as a public good. It doesn't see schools as places where basically we can educate students… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is more to the culture of cruelty than simply ethically challenged policies that benefit the rich and punish the poor, particularly… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
America is at war with itself because it's basically declared war not only on any sense of democratic idealism, but it's declared… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
With no adequate role to play as consumers, many youth are now considered disposable, forced to inhabit "zones of social abandonment" extending… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The production of knowledge in schools today is instrumental, wedded to objective outcomes, privatized, and is largely geared to produce consuming subjects.… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I think the other side of this is in this balance between the social state and the punishing state, remember, the social… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It is hard to imagine, but in a Maryland school, a 13- year old girl was arrested for refusing to say the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Economics now drives politics. This gives us a system in which the relationship between power and politics is no longer fused. Power… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Schools should be democratic public spheres. They should be places that educate people to be informed, to learn how to govern rather… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Any society's insistence on how it takes democracy seriously can, in fact, be measured by the way it treats its children. And… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
They're rights that should be endemic to any democracy. The right to a free quality education, from elementary school right through higher… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We no longer have the public spheres available to be able to contest that violence. We don't see it in the mainstream… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
This violence is so pervasive. We see it in our schools, where we have more security guards now than teachers. We see… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Conservative and liberal politicians alike now spend millions waging wars around the globe, funding the largest military state in the world, providing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Against the tyranny of forgetting, educators, young people, social activists, public intellectuals, workers and others can work to make visible and oppose… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
A symptomatic example of the way in which violence has saturated everyday life can be seen in the increased acceptance of criminalizing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them. — Henry Giroux Copy Share
What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses not to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
Today's neoliberalism has a number of byproducts. We have massive forms of inequality developing because there are no longer any concessions. There's a war… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, young people all over the world are demonstrating against a variety of issues… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
America is at war with itself because it's basically declared war not only on any sense of democratic idealism, but it's declared war on… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are young people… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology. — Henry Giroux Copy Share
I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy. — Henry Giroux Copy Share
Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developing American… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
If the ongoing struggles waged by young people are to matter, demonstrations and protests must give way to more sustainable organizations that develop alternative… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
Many conservatives see higher education as a threat to their reactionary and corporate oriented interests and would like to defund higher education, privatize it,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
Everyone is now a customer or client, and every relationship is ultimately judged in bottom-line, cost-effective terms. Freedom is no longer about equality, social… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
