Henry A. Giroux Quotes

#1. Within the last thirty years, the United States under the reign of market fundamentalism has been transformed into a society that is more about forgetting than learning, more about consuming than producing, more about asserting private interests than democratic rights.

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#2. For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced

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#3. Children have fewer rights than almost any other group and fewer institutions protecting these rights. Consequently, their voices and needs are almost completely absent from the debates, policies, and legislative practices that are constructed in terms of their needs.

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#4. critical pedagogy illuminates how classroom learning embodies selective values, is entangled with relations of power, entails judgments about what knowledge counts, legitimates specific social relations, defines agency in particular ways, and always presupposes a particular notion of the future.

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#5. Torture when inflicted on children
becomes indefensible. Even among those who believe that torture is a defensible
practice to extract information, the case for inflicting pain and abuse upon children
proves impossible to support.

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#6. Democratic ideas cannot exist without the public spheres that make them possible.

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#7. critical pedagogy becomes a project that stresses the need for teachers and students to actively transform knowledge rather than simply consume it.

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