"The new illiteracy is about more than not……" — Henry Giroux

"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 the world..."

— Henry Giroux

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31 Quotes by Henry Giroux

Henry Giroux has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just…
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…
Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some…
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning…
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious…
The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the…
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…
Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies…
The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims,…
Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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