"Universities should be about more than developing work……" — Henry Giroux
"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 in debate, dialogue and bear witness to a different and critical sense of remembering, agency, ethics and collective resistance."
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31 Quotes by Henry Giroux
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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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