Henry Giroux Quotes

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• Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being…
• The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current...
• The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense that…
• Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of difference, community, and…
• Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was…
• The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read…
• Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.
• The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just as we have…
• Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.
• A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to…
• Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young people, especially low…
• The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its…
• Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that mesmerize the illiterate…
• As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.
• If democracy is to once again inspire a populist politics, it is crucial to develop a number of social movements in which the stories told…
• The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.
• Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists.
• Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated…
• Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor…
• Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can engage…

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