The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
How young people are represented betrays a great deal about what is increasingly new about the economic, social, cultural and political constitution… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Given that by age 23, almost a third of Americans are arrested for a crime, it becomes clear that in the new… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Young people refuse to be defined exclusively as consumers rather than as workers, and they reject the notion that the only interests… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Young people refuse the notion that financialization defines the only acceptable definition of exchange, one that is based exclusively on the reductionist… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Mostly out of step, young people, especially poor minorities and low-income whites, are increasingly inscribed within a machinery of dead knowledge, social… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
War at home is matched by a war on youth. I wrote about this recently. Young people graduate with an average of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If American society wants to invest in its young people, it has an obligation to provide them with an education in which… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
And look, we have young people in this country who are thirty years old living with their parents. We have young people… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What has changed about an entire generation of young people includes not only neoliberal society's disinvestment in youth and the lasting fate… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The war being waged against the radical imagination, particularly around young people, is just startling. Young people are laboring under a burden… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What we are seeing in cities such as Chicago, Athens and other dead zones of capitalism throughout the world is the beginning… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Violence maims not only the body but also the mind and spirit. As Pierre Bourdieu has argued, it lies "on the side… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Until educators, individuals, artists, intellectuals and various social movements address how the metaphysics of casino capitalism, war and violence have taken hold… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's slogan: "Let's make America great again." And when I hear that, that seems to suggest there was a moment in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Education as a democratic project always presupposes a vision of the future in its introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I think, at some level, we see young people all over the country mobilizing around different issues, in which they're doing something… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Young people now reside in a world in which there are few public spheres or social spaces autonomous from the reach of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
A discourse for broad-based political change is crucial for developing a politics that speaks to a future that can provide sustainable jobs,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Young people oppose those market-driven values and practices aimed at both creating radically individualized subjects and undermining those public spheres that create… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In the United States the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s, and in the process, has… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
All that young people are promised today are the rewards of a shallow materialism and a degree that is defined primarily as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
State violence cannot be defined simply as a political issue but also as a pedagogical issue that wages violence against the minds,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We need to educate young people to deal with new modes of education that are emerging with the new electronic technologies and… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As young people make diverse claims on the promise of a radical democracy, articulating what a fair and just world might be,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Young people, under the social contract, suggest a long term investment. What we have today is a government that believes that young… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Higher educating is defaulting on its obligations to offer young people a quality and broad-based education. This is true in part because… — 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
Abandoned by the existing political system, young people in Oakland, California, New York City, Quebec and numerous other cities throughout the globe… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Modernity has reneged on its promise to young people to provide social mobility, stability and collective security. Long-term planning and the institutional… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is a need for educators, young people, artists and other cultural workers to develop an educative politics in which people can… — 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
The value of making young people stupid, subject to an educational deficit has enormous currency in a society in which existing relations… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, young people all over the world are demonstrating against a variety… — 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
