Henry Giroux quotes

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world...
-- Henry Giroux

#Book #Knowing #World

Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being deskilled and forced to act as semi-robotic technicians good for little more than teaching for the test...
-- Henry Giroux

#Teacher #Teaching #Thinking

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience...was disparaged.
-- Henry Giroux

#Cheating #Learning #School

The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense that social betterment must be the necessary consequence of individual flourishing.
-- Henry Giroux

#Democracy #Individual #Social

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.
-- Henry Giroux

#Support #Democracy #Bondage

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.
-- Henry Giroux

#Good Life #People #Life Is

As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.
-- Henry Giroux

#Art #Offering #People

What is invaluable about Angela Davis work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations, but connects every aspect of her scholarship and public interventions to what the contours of a truly democratic society might look like.
-- Henry Giroux

#Issues #Doe #Looks

Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of difference, community, and the future. Given that films both reflect and shape public culture, they cannot be defined exclusively through a notion of artistic freedom and autonomy that removes them from any form of critical accountability.
-- Henry Giroux

#Memories #Differences #Community

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current...
-- Henry Giroux

#Running #Culture #Currents

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.
-- Henry Giroux

#People #Dignity #Embrace