Education Quotes by Henry Giroux

As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate…

— Henry Giroux

We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it…

— Henry Giroux

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

— Henry Giroux

Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.

— Henry Giroux

We need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking…

— Henry Giroux

Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes.

— Henry Giroux

Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of…

— Henry Giroux

The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfillment.

— Henry Giroux

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

War at home is matched by a war on youth. I wrote about this recently. Young people graduate with an average of…

— Henry Giroux

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other…

— Henry Giroux

Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens…

— Henry Giroux

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

Since the 1970s, we have witnessed the forces of market fundamentalism strip education of its public values, critical content, and civic responsibilities…

— Henry Giroux

The nature of the issues facing U.S. students is a bit more complicated in the U.S. because the assault on the social…

— Henry Giroux

What is distinctive about the U.S. is that higher education is under attack not because it is failing but because it is…

— Henry Giroux

Schools should be democratic public spheres. They should be places that educate people to be informed, to learn how to govern rather…

— Henry Giroux

The loan crisis and the increasing slashing of funds for students, coupled with the astronomical rise in tuition, represent an unparalleled attack…

— Henry Giroux

Students need to learn how to unlearn those elements of a market driven society that deform their sense of agency, reducing them…

— Henry Giroux

With the rise of new technologies, media, and other cultural apparatuses as powerful forms of public pedagogy, students need to understand and…

— Henry Giroux

Of course, there are also faculty who are discouraged from speaking critically about social issues because of the increasing assumption in American…

— Henry Giroux

What we are seeing in cities such as Chicago, Athens and other dead zones of capitalism throughout the world is the beginning…

— Henry Giroux

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

The production of knowledge in schools today is instrumental, wedded to objective outcomes, privatized, and is largely geared to produce consuming subjects.…

— Henry Giroux

The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of…

— Henry Giroux

We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole…

— Henry Giroux

Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can…

— Henry Giroux

You have a situation in which the U.S. is fighting three unjust wars and wasting trillions of dollars in public funds, all…

— Henry Giroux

The current siege on higher education, whether through defunding education, eliminating tenure, tying research to military needs, or imposing business models of…

— Henry Giroux

If American society wants to invest in its young people, it has an obligation to provide them with an education in which…

— Henry Giroux

We need to educate young people to deal with new modes of education that are emerging with the new electronic technologies and…

— Henry Giroux

If the ongoing struggles waged by young people are to matter, demonstrations and protests must give way to more sustainable organizations that…

— Henry Giroux

Against the tyranny of forgetting, educators, young people, social activists, public intellectuals, workers and others can work to make visible and oppose…

— Henry Giroux

It has been difficult for [young people in the U.S.] to connect the dots between rising tuition costs and other assaults on…

— Henry Giroux

Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young…

— Henry Giroux

Edward Snowden's real "crime" is that he demonstrated how knowledge can be used to empower people, to get them to think as…

— Henry Giroux

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

There is an attempt to deskill teaches by removing matters of conception from implementation. Teachers are no longer asked to be creative,…

— Henry Giroux

Many conservatives see higher education as a threat to their reactionary and corporate oriented interests and would like to defund higher education,…

— Henry Giroux

In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens…

— Henry Giroux