Myles Horton Quotes

#1. 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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#2. I don't know what to do, and if I did know what to do I wouldn't tell you, because if I had to tell you today then I'd have to tell you tomorrow, and when I'm gone you'd have to get somebody else to tell you.

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#3. 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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#4. You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.

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#5. Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.

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#6. The critic said, but don't you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up to the shoulder.

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#7. You can padlock a building, but you can't padlock an idea.

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#8. I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

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#9. This is a problem, how can we have a body of knowledge and understanding and resist the temptation to misread the interest of the people because we're looking for an opportunity to unload this great load of gold that we have stored up?

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#10. I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn't be anything about methods or techniques. It would be loving people first.

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#11. 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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