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…
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The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current...
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.
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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…
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Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.
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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…
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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…
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The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its…
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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…
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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 them.
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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…
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The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.
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Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists.
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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…
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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…
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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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