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 Copy Share Image
The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfillment. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The propensity to avoid moral considerations was producing not simply a politically illiterate and authoritarian society, but one that was increasingly saturated… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
Many conservatives see higher education as a threat to their reactionary and corporate oriented interests and would like to defund higher education,… — 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
Many university presidents assume the language and behavior of CEOs and in doing so they are completely reneging on the public mission… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If the government were to invest that money in higher education and public services, these would be far better investments. But administrators… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The demise of higher education as a public good is also evident in light of the election of a number of right-wing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
That generation really has to fight for a new political language, social movements, and alliances with students from other countries. They have… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen democratic… — 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
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