Accountability Quote by Henry Giroux

The demise of higher education as a public good is also evident in light of the election of a number of right-wing politicians who…

— Henry Giroux

While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are…

— Henry Giroux

The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do not flow…

— Spiro T. Agnew

With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen democratic public life,…

— Henry Giroux

Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars.…

— Katherine Anne Porter

It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting…

— Vincent Massey

Public universities are the lifeblood of modern democracies.

— Sanjaya Baru

Many university presidents assume the language and behavior of CEOs and in doing so they are completely reneging on the public mission of the…

— Henry Giroux

“Some colleges have become institutions that no longer thrive on education, but rather on the suffering, expense, toil, and insecurity of their students, as…

— Loren Mayshark

Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public…

— Henry Giroux

It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That approach in…

— Henry Rosovsky

The educational system in the US was a highly predictable victim of the neoliberal reaction, guided by the maxim of "private affluence and public…

— Noam Chomsky