Credentials Quote by Henry Giroux

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“The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfillment.”

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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…

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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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What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses not to just the young protesters occupying a number of American cities, but also the threat it poses to democracy itself. This threat is being exacerbated as a result of the merging of a war-like mentality and neoliberal…

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America is at war with itself because it's basically declared war not only on any sense of democratic idealism, but it's declared war on…

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All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are young people…

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The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense…

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History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

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I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy.

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Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals,…

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Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know…

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Others may question your credentials, your papers, your degrees. Others may look for all kinds of ways to diminish your worth. But what is inside you no one can take from you or tarnish. This is your worth, who you really are, your degree that can go with you wherever you go, that you bring with you the moment you…

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I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college.…

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I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters'…

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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. ... I know what regret feels like; I've earned my…

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It is not about where you are but in what direction you're moving. God is into character, not credentials.

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...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says stupid things, then tries to claim he never said them, there's no rule against calling him a mendacious idiot - and no special qualifications required to make that pronouncement other than doing your own homework.Conversely, if someone without…

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