"Curiosity is very important I think, and I……" — Myles Horton
"Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway."
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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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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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Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education…
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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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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
— Margaret Atwood
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
— Paul Auster
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It…
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
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I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was…
— Chester Bennington
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