"Any decent society has to be built on……" — Myles Horton
"Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things as you struggle to build a decent society that can be nonviolent."
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Myles Horton
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12 Quotes by Myles Horton
Myles Horton has 12 quotes on this site.
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I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody's knowledge should be made…
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When people criticize me for not having any respect for existing structures and institutions, I protest. I say I give…
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Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed…
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I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education,…
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Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.
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Instead of thinking that you put pieces together that will add up to a whole, I think you have to…
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You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in…
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I’m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my…
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I also knew that if people have a position on something and you try to argue them into changing it,…
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If you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing.
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You can padlock a building, but you can't padlock an idea.
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