"I also knew that if people have a……" — Myles Horton
"I also knew that if people have a position on something and you try to argue them into changing it, you’re going to strengthen that position. If you want to change people’s ideas, you shouldn’t try to convince them intellectually. What you need to do is get them into a situation where they’ll have to act on ideas not argue about them."
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Myles Horton
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12 Quotes by Myles Horton
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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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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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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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