Henry Giroux: “All education is a struggle over what kind of future you want for young people" 

This guy is a Critical Race Theorist! If you don't believe me then listen to his lectures. Don't be fooled by this toxic ideology.

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I think that what he is saying is that what literacy was to the humanist rational liberalism of the enlightenment is education on the ways and sharpening our intellectual skills to be able to recognize and correctly interpret the agendas behind the many forms of social and cultural indoctrination that we as a population are constantly being subjected to, the collective consciousness in which we are immersed and enveloped by. Which is invisible to perceive because it is the implicit assumptions and mental categories that we use to construct and understand reality (whether that reality is concrete or conceptual)itself. Much like water is invisible to a fish because it is so omnipresent that it recedes into an invisible background space in which everything else happens. The parallel to this is the human cultural and collective mental space. I think that what this guy is trying to explain is our processes of mind which are normally unconscious and hidden or invisible to ourselves. Might make some people unfamiliar with deep introspection self awareness and reflection a little uncomfortable. Other than that a piece of cake, basic post post modern common sense really.

@@123compaq123 For me ,the limitaion of Giroux and much of left-wing thinkers is they are great on criticising but inadequte when it comes to imagining a world or future that honours all that is wonderful about human history and humanity, In their rush to blindly destroy everything, in pure avant-garde fashion, they fail to see the many true fountains and sources of a life well-ived. Thus their imagined futures are so often bleak and harsh because they have ignored and destroyed many great aspects of human life and culture in the quest of their limited political objectives.

Concuerdo, mucha palabrería poca utilidad práctica; estos pensadores están lejos de la realidad y esa desconexion provoca un grande de complejidad mayor en sus teorías para intentar constatarlas.

:) do it for name of Education! y tus estudiantes

Did you end it up doing it? if you have it please share it?

Hi! Same thoughts here - but to Czech. Did you find out anything about the copyrights? Thanks!

Fresh eyes, new ideas. Not tainted yet. I think science has some phrase about 'we must wait for this generation to die, to advance the next science'.

You’re absolutely spot on. Henry Giroux misleads the audience with an insidious fallacy by setting up false dichotomies. Marxists always lie (as James Lindsay says) and this is no exception. Who is actually proposing this mythical “neutral education” Giroux speaks of.

@@pashadyne it’s all still very hegelian, centering around the concept of “Aufheben,” which he obsessed over.

He has plenty of criticism but no plan. Anyone can do this. Sounds like an unhappy ex-wife.

@@marscruz sounds like you're a piece of misogynistic. it happens a lot, we have ideologies against things but we don't know how to start or how to do it. people in power don't let you change things either, i don't see you either doing something, so instead of criticizing someone support ideas and start doing things

@@triviajjunie9896 I've been "doing things" for well over 50 years and have been quite successful. Excuse me if I see others differently than you do. This is actually quite common as you may find out as you mature.

Translated into English: A load of dangerous nonsense, largely based on the correct observations of early modernist Thomas Hobbes. Foucault added incompatible and dense German bits to his Hobbesian 'philosophy' - and morons called him a genius. Foucault was not a postmodernist, he is more correctly described as a vulgar/Hobbesian modernist with German-ish additions. Not very catchy though. 'Foucauldian poetry' essentially means whatever you want it to mean. This is what Foucault's disciples did when they struggled to make Foucault's wretched ideas practicable. If you, further, hear the word 'critical' is is usually an indication that the author of the phrase has no idea how to criticise anything outside of a series of stitched together cliches from post-Marxist mumbo-jumbo.

Slightly less good than Vogon poetry.

You’re just jealous he has hair.

These days, with obe and blooms taxonomy etc, teaching methods are dictated by comprehensive technical manuals with which anybody can perform the act of educating mindlessly.

@@zakyjaafar3946 Incorrect. Teaching methods are certainly not dictated by comprehensive technical manuals.

I do believe that teaching student's how to think is what we need to do. But his method on how to think is a dangerous one. Do know that this guy is a Critical Race Theorist, Marxist and a student of Paulo Freire. If you don't believe me then you can look it up...

@@mindful3334 The way “How” is used is referring to education skills not what opinions or philosophies one must hold.

@@willmickel71 Yes, we're saying the same thing here. Many educators will agree that indoctrination isn't education. But in the event that you actually take this guy up on his views then do know that that he's a Critical Race Theorist, Marxist and a student of Paulo Freire. Are you aware of these toxic and dangerous ideologies?

@@willmickel71 oh you sweet summer child. They are teaching kids HOW to think LIKE Critical Marxists, all because of the Critical Pedagogy Giroux brought and adapted from Freire into US academia. Read “The Critical Turn in Education” by Isaac Gottesman

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what he is arguing for. He is arguing for young people to look at the world around them, the world they live in, and understand and critique it. To not accept the so-called neutral stories created to maintain status quo.

Su pregunta es buena, yo lo tomaría como "potencial"....

Freire is much better in my opinion. He is/was much more connected with humanity and reality.

I couldn't agree more. The "New Discourses Podcast" has multiple episode breaking down the works of both of these men if you're interested in learning more.

That's because you are a Marxist.

The word “critical” is tied to “critical consciousness raising” which essentially means that the world is made up of victims and oppressors and that the victims are intellectually and morally superior due to their being in the oppressors world as well as their own. Aka “double consciousness”. That is why Marxists want to “centre” everything on the margins, including perverts and deviants.

Anti-capitalism doesn't necessarily always equal anti-democracy. Especially when you consider how anti-democratic capitalism really is

You should know democracy a bit more.

@@Recondite101 I didn’t say that.

Why should the market be the dominant force in society, capitalism demands it

Their Democracy is where everyone is Utterly Free (and the same i.e. Communism ). Mainly Free of objective reality and constraints whereby Mankind is uplifted to be like a God. Ofcourse Marxist ( Hegelian ) gospel is that we live in a poor Reflection/Simulacrum of the Real Reality and that is what limits us. Thus we Ascend by Breaking stuff and sifting Gold Nuggets of Truth from the Ashes to get Closer to the Real. Ofcourse when you break stuff our objective ( read normal ) reality comes back to bite them in the arse and bad things happen. Ofcourse that's never Real Communism/Socialism/Critical Theory/Critical Pedagogy because that's how the they roll. They just learned a bit more Truth. Never mind the ~150million deaths caused by Hegelian faiths in the 20th century. Yes, if you think that sounds like a Cult.....that's because it is. It is no wonder that US education is getting abysmal results. They really think everything is part of an invisibile vast conspiracy to make more of itself. Thus objective literacy is not the goal. The goal is the cultivate *their* poltical literacy ( i.e. a Marxist lens over everything ). And they're doing it. The goal is to make students critical of everything not Marxist. Reading and math be damned, those are only tools to oppress you and keep your from Their Freedom ( i.e. Communism). You can spot their literature by some Key Words. Transformation ( I.e. break whats there and that's the Alchemy bit where they find "Truth"), New Possibilites (Never articulated or planned, Communism has no idea of how their Utopia looks and thus cannot know what it wants ) but always achieved by handing over power to their Soviets....er Councils of Experts and Stakeholders. Equity ( Communism ). Inclusion; of everything Marxist. They LOVE the trans stuff, as it frees people, seemingly, from objective reality.

Yes. You can't have democracy without socialism

Stop talking about "capitalism" and start talking about "free market." They are using the term capitalism when they actually mean ""crony capitalism" - government in bed with business. And isn't that actually what socialism is? People talk about a separation of church and state - I want to see a separation of business and state: very limited government control; no taxpayer bailout.

You need to start thinking your way out of the hole that has been dug for you.

There's no such thing as a "neutral" education, so I'm afraid that I don't know what you mean when you say that others have "politicized" it. What the classroom should be is an environment where the teacher objectively plays "devil's advocate" for every single perspective. That's how you get kids to think.

@@melodieslaughter7704 There isn't enough time on earth to teach every single perspective, and some ideas have already been encountered and resolved. We don't have to debate whether the earth is flat or not. or if gravity exists or if murder is morally right/wrong. Liberal education teaches a specific set of values and universally accepted knowledge, but also encourages criticism, that's what neutrality means. What Marxist like him suggest is indoctrination and waging political warfare in the minds of children, he's evil.

How please can you elaborate?

@@malihaasad6835 he introduced Friere's unscientific and outright religious pedagogical theories into education and worked hard to get religious nutjobs into staff in colleges of education. The only scientific study of Friere's methods in teaching resulted in students entering an emotional catastrophic state in which they were unwilling and unable to learn. According to Friere, the purpose of an education is to achieve a Marxist political consciousness.

@@malihaasad6835 By stealing education time by using Math, Literacy and other subjects as Generative vessels. I.e. All texts and examples will slant negative of current society. During math time an example was given about %s linking wealth and skin color fron Census date. Heavily implying that skin color is the determinant for population level outcomes. Furthermore, discussion will automatically be held about the fairness of that implied reality. The Higher the age group the more it explicitly slants towards the underlying assumption being that Everything we do ( even basic reading and math skills ) is specifically done to oppress the less privileged. And that any outcome that is different from the privileged group ( i.e. Whites, White straight men etc.) is caused by these ever more invisible secret power plays. Ofcourse their remedy is give power to their Soviets.....errr... Councils of Experts and Stakeholders as those people have "special" ways of Knowing Real Reality. Thus they are better at Knowing the Real than those poor benighted fools who prattle on about Science, Math and Literacy which are just tools to oppress everyone. Distinctly Cultish Behavior, obviously.

True.

Socialism is when bad