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.
Myles HortonIf you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing.
Myles HortonYou can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.
Myles HortonInstead 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.
Myles Horton