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

[@jolliethejoy]

He has a great way of explaining and I love it, glad my professor suggested this video to me I have a better understanding about it now

[@athnealerodney1979]

"Power, at its worst, is invisible..." Giroux (2019). A very articulate expression of the power dynamics that permeates throughout modern societies....

[@mindful3334]

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.

[@trombone7]

"An education that doesn't question how power is established and maintained is an education that, itself, protects power." - Adapted from the documentary "Lottery of Birth"

[@sweetpeasbackyardgarden1236]

Wow! Succinct expressions. "Young people have a lot of power. They are a potent political force."

[@harryfloros8796]

Henry Armand Giroux is an American-Canadian scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory. So why is he spouting his word salad standing next to a blackboard of advanced applied mathematics? That lower case h with a bar across it is Planck’s constant divided by 2π. Now why would M. Giroux deliver his sermon stand next to such material in such dramatic chiaroscuro lighting, like some worthy from a Rembrandt painting? Does M Giroux have any understanding of quantum physics beyond his conviction that it’s a product of white supremacist thought or that it might help to make his i-phone go?

[@Ohana9999]

a BRILLIANT man!

[@frankvonfrauner]

You know he's smart because he's sitting in front of a blackboard with math on it.

[@Wealllovekaira]

If you enjoy what he is saying, I suggest also looking at Paulo Freire. I like Giroux's the best so far, but they both have such interesting and revolutionary takes on the educational system.

[@yogi2436]

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

[@SquishyMan9919]

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.

[@diegomarino8851]

What is the exact second when the second half of the space cake hits? My bet 4:07

[@TheLegoryan]

So much hate in the comments yet a serious lack of legitimate criticism

[@MuricaTurkey]

"Struggle"? Hmm... where have I heard THAT before?! 🤔

[@roberth7921]

Education is for empowering those who powerlessly stand at the end of the tunnel of education, namely the teachers.

[@maxinevandate6366]

OMgoodness! I agree about the methods, but you, Henry, are promoting a false consciousness

[@pesquer2211]

Very nice to see this professor getting pushback for his apparently progressive but really regressive ideas

[@DieNachtwanderer]

would not a student be required to master methods (mechanics of reading, reading comprehension, mathematics, writing - and master the advanced versions of method) in order to best be able to actualize any (any) given approach to identity and agency. bluntly, if I cannot read or reason or make fundamental numerate estimations of my environment, would that not be the greatest threat to preservation of intrinsic and subsequent identity? beginning with identity would seem a thing we do with animals - treat dog like dog. teach dog, even anthropomorphically, what dogs are...

[@MichaelKirk-yu2yh]

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'.

[@thothharris]

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.

[@alexakos5239]

Can we also have Greek subtitles please ??

[@elprofejuan3897]

¿Can I translate it into spanish and upload it into my youtube channel? Does the video have copyrights??

[@yesica7080]

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

[@yamiladdi]

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

[@danvykoukal5310]

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

[@yogi2436]

The next step for enlightenment is for people to be able to think their way out of the mess created by Giroux and thinkers like him.

[@123compaq123]

explain

[@Roger-r7s]

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.

[@yogi2436]

@@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.

[@eltanguero9426]

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.

[@Ohana9999]

you are a fool and will always remain one.

[@pww7940]

By externalizing and projecting evil into unjust social structures and prophesying a paradise-like utopia via apocalyptic revolution, Marxism evades the central issue that both religion and great art boldly confront: evil is rooted in the human heart. - Camille Paglia

[@KoDi82]

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

[@rimazzz333]

well said great man

[@marscruz]

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

[@triviajjunie9896]

@@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

[@marscruz]

@@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.

[@dstorm7752]

The word "critical" in the groves of academe tends to mean "pro-leftist"

[@kyleolin3566]

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.

[@treyb3693]

Methods? What if the students select or create their own methods? What about methods in professional ethics? Is it not a method to gain the attention of the learners first before engagement in some learning exercise? Perhaps what is meant by the professor is that the qualitative aspects are overlooked oftentimes by learning and applying methodologies.

[@zakyjaafar3946]

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.

[@AlistairAVogan]

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

[@sebolddaniel]

The multiculturalism movement in the universities is tied to economics. I say that because at its inception it was not all inclusive. LGBT was not part of it initially.

[@willmickel71]

It was once the role of educators to teach people how to think not what to think. Professors like this take the opposite view.

[@mindful3334]

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...

[@willmickel71]

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

[@mindful3334]

@@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?

[@KoDi82]

@@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

[@alexsteinberg3610]

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.

[@paulelago9453]

Makes some good points. But he's consumed by Anti-capitalism. He doesn't sound like someone that speaks for democracy but rather wants power concentrated in those that share his ideology.

[@Recondite101]

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

[@muhammaduwaisemf9632]

You should know democracy a bit more.

[@paulelago9453]

@@Recondite101 I didn’t say that.

[@TheLegoryan]

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

[@dwwolf4636]

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.

[@UIA81]

Foucauldian poetry

[@damianbylightning6823]

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.

[@MACNAOIS]

Slightly less good than Vogon poetry.

[@aditikulkarni2930]

WOW !

[@manjusaxena4938]

Revolution is a psyche of every human existence. Human existence can not be silence . Hence depoliticization of education is an autocracy of elite culture. Mass education is revolutionary emancipation. A revolutionary .................

[@zo1dberg]

It's great that this guy is getting called out for his Critical Pedagogy. Now that we have identified what this guy is doing to children (turning them in to hateful activists), we can now take action to stop him.

[@DieNachtwanderer]

...further, the object of concern (the disenfranchised folks) are left with an odd choice: remain under the "power" of one called master (essentially, the white person as cultural, fascist hegemon as described in vid) OR hew to an alternate power that has the exact same cultural characteristics (not least by phenotype as culture in American terms), the difference in ideology being insignificant given their supreme control of either end of the spectrum. in broken english: there are no "powerless" thinkers offering this ideology on behalf of themselves. how is one to judge, especially in the direct scheme stated: the power structure. it looks different to him, but is essentially, empirically, and epistemologically the same doggone person in the eyes of the folks being urged to forsake method for identity.

[@__loafy__]

Imagine dyeing your hair every day when you're 80 years old.

[@stacysedgewood9600]

You’re just jealous he has hair.

[@jawary8474]

So spot on

[@SquishyMan9919]

To find out more about this brilliant man you should check out the "New Discourses Podcast"

[@Luke43168]

Is there actually anything of substance in that podcast "New Discourses?" Or is really just in actual fact "old discourses" in its submission to power and doctrine?

[@pww7940]

"An education that doesn't question how power is established and maintained is an education that, itself, protects power." An education that focuses on power and how it is established and maintained is one that loses sight of everything else and incites resentment and tribalism. That type of education is what lead to the greatest atrocities of the last century.

[@yogi2436]

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

[@miriammedina8858]

Excelente!

[@abdirahmanhassan121]

Thank you, it was very insightful

[@danteskl720]

What about math, spelling, and geography? You forgot those.

[@The_Burning_Sensation]

"Capitalism is the antithesis of democracy", if your definition of "democracy" is communism. "Liberation" always means communism with these people. Democracy means communism. It's like they're speaking their own little coded language.

[@Recondite101]

Yes. You can't have democracy without socialism

[@CornerTalker]

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.

[@PabloFC1975]

¿Qué quiere decir cuando habla de "agency", palabra que menciona constantemente? Es para un trabajo práctico en el instituto... gracias!!

[@drRGCRock]

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

[@pablorazdrokin2092]

Brillante !!!

[@TheVoluntariast]

In his crusade against "capitalism," he misses the mark by failing to distinguish between legitimate market economies and corrupt crony capitalism. His blanket condemnation of capitalism as inherently oppressive overlooks the nuances of economic systems and stifles meaningful discourse about real-world solutions. Does he not know the difference?

[@psicoadicto]

Y finalmente Amparo va a dejar su pensión o es una nini que vive el erario.

[@carlosenriquegonzalez-isla6523]

Thanks 🙏 a lot. Esto lo deberían de ver y, mas importante, entender los p3ndejos que están atacando la Nueva Escuela Mexicana.

[@phillip53]

Economic rights... Sounds like the right to the fruits of another's labor.

[@MW-ic7lr]

Is he laughing at his own BS? This guy sounds profound because he uses big buzz words and doesnt stfu and throws in a few moralistic ideas to boot. I wouldnt trust this guy to lead anything.

[@elizabethh257]

Stay Golden pony boy.

[@SquishyMan9919]

He shares your vocabulary but not your dictionary.... this man is a murderous tyrant, he simply hasn't gotten his hands on the power.

[@majorhonest8745]

I like to his idea

[@SquishyMan9919]

That's because you are a Marxist.

[@juliafox52]

The professor makes some good points, but his solutions are evil. He is calling for the Red Guard. Untold millions died under this way of thinking. He shouldn't be allowed anywhere near children OR educators. Must we repeat the past or can we not learn from it?!

[@paulelago9453]

True.

[@Recondite101]

Socialism is when bad

[@nahnan2278]

big brain time

[@beetlegin]

Yeah - politicising education has always worked out really well hasn't it. Teaching basic skills can be neutral, what he's arguing for is indoctrination, but that's okay because all the 'approved' educators will believe as he does in this brave new world as it transitions from the ancien regime to the coming utopia - 'a time of great anxiety but also great possibility' - as he and other revolutionaries have observed. And the claim that "The left have failed because they believed that the most important structures of domination are entirely economic, and not those those elements that trade in beliefs, persuasion, pedagogy, changing consciousness (whatever the fuck that is) and modes of identitication" is an outright lie. They left have been focused on nothing else for at least sixty years, the literature on all this is immense. Always facinating how blind ideologues are to their own prejudicies, assumptions and bigotries. Frankly, people like this scare the shit out of me, and if they don't have the same effect on you then you haven't been paying attention.

[@melodieslaughter7704]

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.

[@paulelago9453]

@@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.

[@gordonsulc8319]

This guy is the reason American children can't read, write, and do math at grade level. He destroyed them.

[@malihaasad6835]

How please can you elaborate?

[@gordonsulc8319]

@@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.

[@dwwolf4636]

@@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.

[@LauraGonzalez-lk1tr]

Me encantó!

[@tonymorelli1571]

Get off the backs of children and grow up yourself.

[@pww7940]

"pedagogies of oppression" what an absolute clown

[@mervinsingh3339]

Twitter is not literacy? ummm it's literally a form of literacy.

[@gonzatamame]

My new god

[@Lakridza67]

I love this man with all my soul! 🫶🏻