Schools should be democratic public spheres. They should be places that educate people to be informed, to learn how to govern rather than be governed, to take justice seriously, to spur the radical imagination, to give them the tools that they need to be able to both relate to themselves and others in the wider world. I mean, at the heart of any education that matters, is a central question: How can you imagine a future much different than the present, and a future that basically grounds itself in questions of economic, political and social justice?
And look, we have young people in this country who are thirty years old living with their parents. We have young people in this country who don't hav… - Henry Giroux
And look, we have young people in this country who are thirty years old living with their parents. We have young people in this country who don't hav…
- Henry Giroux
There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the range of acceptable … - Henry Giroux
There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the range of acceptable …
Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social … - Henry Giroux
Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social …
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of hum… - Henry Giroux
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of hum…
All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are young people told that they do no… - Henry Giroux
All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are young people told that they do no…
Individual struggles merge into larger social movements. - Henry Giroux
Individual struggles merge into larger social movements.
Within neoliberal narratives, youth are mostly defined as a consumer market, a drain on the economy, or stand for trouble. - Henry Giroux
Within neoliberal narratives, youth are mostly defined as a consumer market, a drain on the economy, or stand for trouble.
Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly… - Henry Giroux
Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly…
Trump, like that canary in the coalmine, makes clear what elements of fascism are really like. Let's be honest. The racism, the ignorance, the stupid… - Henry Giroux
Trump, like that canary in the coalmine, makes clear what elements of fascism are really like. Let's be honest. The racism, the ignorance, the stupid…
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