"You can padlock a building, but you can't…" — Myles Horton
"You can padlock a building, but you can't padlock an idea."
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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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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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