Illiteracy
Kenneth Libby,
Schools Matter,
Sept 18, 2009
It makes you take a deep breath and set your lips and then set to work again: "The United States is a country that is increasingly defined by a civic deficit, a chronic and deadly form of civic illiteracy that points to the failure of both its educational system and the growing ability of anti-democratic forces to use the educational force of the culture to promote the new illiteracy. As a result of this widespread illiteracy that has come to dominate American culture we have moved from a culture of questioning to a culture of shouting, and in doing so have restaged politics and power in both unproductive and anti-democratic ways." From Dr. Henry Giroux, the Global TV Network chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Canada.
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