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Quote by 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

Myles Horton was an American educator and social activist known for his contributions to adult education and the social justice movement. He was born on July 9, 1905, and passed away on January 19, 1990. more

“Instead of thinking that you put pieces together that will add up to a whole, I think you have to start with the premise that they're already together and you try to keep from destroying life by segmenting it, overorganizing it and dehumanizing it. You try to keep things together. The educative process must be organic, and not an assortment of unrelated methods and ideas.”

Thinking Trying Ideas Whole Together Process Pieces Method Add Destroying Premises

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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 it.”

People Ifs Want Revolutionary No Point

Book:The Myles Horton Reader: Education for Social Change

Source: The Myles Horton Reader: Education for Social Change

“I’m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I don’t work that way. I work with tentative ideas and I experiment and then with that experimentation in action, I finally come to the conclusions about what I think is the right way to do it.”

Thinking Way Ideas Action Work Out Experiments Conclusion Right Way Experimentation

Author: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.”

People Ifs Want Needs Trying Ideas Situation Position Arguing Convince