Henry Giroux Quotes

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being, so that we, we have important rules in school, always emphasizing the fact that one is part of a group.

Learning isn't something you should only do solo.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.

I actually just started home schooling. And it is great.

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.

Colleges sort as much as they teach.

School-houses are the republican line of fortifications

There is no less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there.

Learn from the masses and then teach them.

Teachers alone can't educate young people.

As an eight-year-old, I would listen to stories and biographies of Charles Darwin and Galileo. I also went to wonderful schools and had great teachers who inspired me.

One of my favorite sayings is, 'Much have I learned from my teachers, but even more from my friends and even more from my students.'

At a collective level, learning is an essential link in our society.