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
We need to educate students to be critical agents, to learn how to take risks, engage in thoughtful dialogue, and taking on… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Students need to learn how to unlearn those elements of a market driven society that deform their sense of agency, reducing them… — 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
The current siege on higher education, whether through defunding education, eliminating tenure, tying research to military needs, or imposing business models of… — 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
In Quebec, in spite of police violence and threats, thousands of students demonstrated for months against a former right-wing government that wanted… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a… — 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
With the rise of new technologies, media, and other cultural apparatuses as powerful forms of public pedagogy, students need to understand and… — 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
Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes. — 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
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
The loan crisis and the increasing slashing of funds for students, coupled with the astronomical rise in tuition, represent an unparalleled attack… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In this particular historical moment, the notion of conjuncture helps us to address theoretically how youth protests are largely related to a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 war on… — 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 young people… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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 Image
History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
