"The stories a society tells about itself are……" — Henry Giroux
"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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31 Quotes by Henry Giroux
Henry Giroux has 31 quotes on this site.
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Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just…
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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…
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Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some…
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Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning…
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The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about…
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Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious…
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The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the…
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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…
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Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies…
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The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims,…
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the…
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because…
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Jeans represent democracy in fashion.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and…
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
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