Young people Quotes by 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

Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data.

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

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Mostly out of step, young people, especially poor minorities and low-income whites, are increasingly inscribed within a machinery of dead knowledge, social…

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Young people now reside in a world in which there are few public spheres or social spaces autonomous from the reach of…

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Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels…

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

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Given that by age 23, almost a third of Americans are arrested for a crime, it becomes clear that in the new…

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There is a need for educators, young people, artists and other cultural workers to develop an educative politics in which people can…

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Any society's insistence on how it takes democracy seriously can, in fact, be measured by the way it treats its children. And…

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Until educators, individuals, artists, intellectuals and various social movements address how the metaphysics of casino capitalism, war and violence have taken hold…

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It is hard to imagine, but in a Maryland school, a 13- year old girl was arrested for refusing to say the…

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Modernity has reneged on its promise to young people to provide social mobility, stability and collective security. Long-term planning and the institutional…

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Abandoned by the existing political system, young people in Oakland, California, New York City, Quebec and numerous other cities throughout the globe…

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

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And look, we have young people in this country who are thirty years old living with their parents. We have young people…

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Donald Trump's slogan: "Let's make America great again." And when I hear that, that seems to suggest there was a moment in…

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Education as a democratic project always presupposes a vision of the future in its introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular…

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I think, at some level, we see young people all over the country mobilizing around different issues, in which they're doing something…

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Young people refuse to be defined exclusively as consumers rather than as workers, and they reject the notion that the only interests…

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Young people refuse the notion that financialization defines the only acceptable definition of exchange, one that is based exclusively on the reductionist…

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The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified…

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How young people are represented betrays a great deal about what is increasingly new about the economic, social, cultural and political constitution…

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

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As young people make diverse claims on the promise of a radical democracy, articulating what a fair and just world might be,…

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Higher educating is defaulting on its obligations to offer young people a quality and broad-based education. This is true in part because…

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Young people, under the social contract, suggest a long term investment. What we have today is a government that believes that young…

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State violence cannot be defined simply as a political issue but also as a pedagogical issue that wages violence against the minds,…

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As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to…

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All that young people are promised today are the rewards of a shallow materialism and a degree that is defined primarily as…

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In the United States the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s, and in the process, has…

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Young people oppose those market-driven values and practices aimed at both creating radically individualized subjects and undermining those public spheres that create…

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What has changed about an entire generation of young people includes not only neoliberal society's disinvestment in youth and the lasting fate…

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The war being waged against the radical imagination, particularly around young people, is just startling. Young people are laboring under a burden…

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Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism…

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Violence maims not only the body but also the mind and spirit. As Pierre Bourdieu has argued, it lies "on the side…

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

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

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Job insecurity, debt servitude, poverty, incarceration and a growing network of real and symbolic violence have entrapped too many young people in…

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I mean, the people who got us into these crises - whether we're talking about the bankers or the hedge fund managers,…

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