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Pedagogy is always about power, because it cannot be separated from how subjectives are formed, desires mobilized, how some experiences are legitimized and others are not, or how some knowledge is considered acceptable while other forms are excluded from the curriculum.

~ Henry A. Giroux

Henry A. Giroux Education Knowledge Pedagogy Power

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

~ Henry A. Giroux

Henry A. Giroux Ancient Education Learning Outcomes Moral Political

Americans need to continue to develop broad-based movements that reject the established political parties and rethink the social formations necessary to bring about a radical democracy. We see this in the Black Lives Matter movement as well as in a range of other movements that are resisting corporate money in politics, the widespread destruction of the environment, nuclear war and the mass incarceration state.

~ Henry A. Giroux

Henry A. Giroux America Democracy Political Politics Politics Of The United States

Torture when inflicted on childrenbecomes indefensible. Even among those who believe that torture is a defensiblepractice to extract information, the case for inflicting pain and abuse upon childrenproves impossible to support.

~ Henry A. Giroux

Henry A. Giroux Children Cruelty Torture Youth

Not surprisingly, the all-powerful evocation of terrorism is reserved only for those acts that threaten the government-sponsored status quo, but not that perpetrated by the state or corporations against the population. So, for example, the ugly history of white people lynching, bombing, and killing Blacks in the United States is not understood, taught, or remembered as a part of the homeland’s history of terrorism.

~ Henry A. Giroux

Henry A. Giroux Government State Terrorism Violence

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

~ Henry A. Giroux

Henry A. Giroux Democracy Education Ideas Public

We live in a time that demands a discourse of both critique and possibility, one that recognizes that without an informed citizenry, collective struggle, and viable social movements, democracy will slip out of our reach and we will arrive at a new stage of history marked by the birth of an authoritarianism that not only disdains all vestiges of democracy but is more than willing to relegate it to a distant memory.

~ Henry A. Giroux

Henry A. Giroux Authoritarianism Collective Struggle Critique Democracy Education Giroux Public
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