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	Activist Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Myles Horton was a pioneer in the cause of social justice within the Southern Region of America.
		Myles Horton and his staff believed that solidarity between the region’s workers was the key to winning the battle over poverty and oppression of workers.
		During that visit she and Myles Horton discussed at great length the hardships and struggle the bus boycott required on those 50,000 who were walking everyday, but the victory in the end proved to be worth the sacrifice.
	www.uawregion8.net /Activist-HOF/M-Horton.htm (3761 words)

	Reviews of Paulo Freire's Books
		Myles Horton was definitely less prolific as a writer than Freire and it is possibly for this very reason that his contribution to transformative radical adult education has not been accorded the international recognition that it deserves.
		In their introduction, the editors, all of whom were close associates of Myles Horton, divulge background information concerning the development of this book and contextualise the two men's efforts in the field of adult education, providing, in the process, useful biographical data on both.
		Horton's views regarding competence and directiveness, within the context of a dialogical education, are supported by Freire's reiteration, in the section on 'Educational Practice', of the distinction between authority and authoritarianism in education.
	fcis.oise.utoronto.ca /~daniel_schugurensky/freire/pm.html (1991 words)

	Myles Horton
		Myles was born July 5, 1905, in Savannah, Tennessee.
		Myles Horton entered Cumberland College in Tennessee in 1924 and almost immediately led a student revolt against the hazing of freshmen by fraternities.
		Myles repeatedly denied that he was a Communist or that the school had links with the Communist Party.
	www3.nl.edu /academics/cas/ace/resources/myleshorton.cfm?RenderForPrint=1 (823 words)

	An Exploration of Myles Horton's Democratic Praxis: Highlander Folk School Educational Foundations - Find Articles
		While Horton began with Dewey's concept of a democratic society, he worked for close to sixty years on further developing this "growing idea," based on what he learned from his experiences through Highlander during the socialist times of labor union organizing, the anti-racist times of the Civil Rights Movement, and beyond.
		Horton preferred to rely on oral transmission to share his ideas, so he shared them through the meetings he attended, the stories he and others told and the protest songs they sang.
		I want to suggest that Horton and Highlander offer us a credible vision of an alternative to the present liberal democratic order, though Horton would be the first to say that vision must continue to grow and develop and be critiqued, as times change.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3971/is_200404/ai_n9390222 (804 words)

	When Adult Education Stood for Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Aimee Horton's study was first written in 1971 as her doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago and has served as a critical resource for most subsequent research, including the work of John Glen.
		The voice of Myles Horton, founder of Highlander and, for many years its director, echoes in both Glen's and Aimee Horton's historical studies, but resounds even more forcefully in his autobiography which provides essential background and an insider's insight into the political commitments and vision which make Highlander a living institution still.
		Myles Horton spent the last decade of his life traveling extensively around the world and building bridges between the mountain school and global movements and struggles for change.
	www.nl.edu /academics/cas/ace/facultypapers/ThomasHeaney_Democracy.cfm (3950 words)

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		Beginning in 1935 until her death in 1956, Zilphia Horton, first wife of Highlander's founder Myles Horton, enhanced the cultural pluralism of the school by developing a curriculum which incorporated and elevated the importance of folk music, dance, and drama.
		The legacy left by Zilphia Horton and an analysis of the role of folk music in particular, and the arts in general, in education for social action at Highlander Folk School complete this study.
		Horton, who subsequently bragged about the accomplishment, was accurate enough with a pistol to extinguish a cigarette.
	web.bilkent.edu.tr /nova/education/horizons/v8n2/3.html (2299 words)

	Campus Compact Reader - Winter 2004
		HORTON: Well, if you're going to tell people what the answers are to all their problems-you're going to solve all their problems for them-you're saying they aren't capable of solving them themselves, otherwise you wouldn't be doing it.
		HORTON: I think that any kind of dialogue-if it means anything-if it makes any sense at all-it means that you don't have inferiors and superiors all in the same conversation.
		HORTON: Well, you're trying to help people mine the whole of the stuff in their experiences that are essential.
	www.compact.org /reader/winter04/article1.html (2724 words)

	NC FFA - Myles Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Myles Branch is a 2005 graduate of Surry Central High School in Dobson, North Carolina.
		Myles is currently a freshman at North Carolina State University, majoring in Animal Science.
		Myles was raised on a dairy farm where his grandfather and father taught him the importance of hard work and the enjoyment of a livelihood derived from an agricultural career.
	www.ncffa.org /myles.html (231 words)

	Highlander Research and Education Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frank Adams, with Myles Horton, Unearthing Seeds of Fire: The Idea of Highlander.
		Myles Horton, with Herbert and Judith Kohl, The Long Haul.
		Myles Horton and Paulo Friere, We Make the Road by Walking.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Highlander_Research_and_Education_Center (433 words)

	Educational Foundations: An Exploration of Myles Horton's Democratic Praxis: Highlander Folk School
		Horton preferred to rely on oral transmission to share his ideas, so he shared them through the meetings he attended, the stories he and others told and the protest songs they sang.
		Horton always said you must begin with practice and move to theory, he tried it the other way around and it didn't work with his students.
		Myles Horton wanted to find ways to help poor, rural people in the South, and particularly in Tennessee, become empowered to think and act for themselves and change their lives.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3971/is_200404/ai_n9390222 (1092 words)

	Radical Teacher: Educating for activism in the radical south
		Horton is a pragmatist (in the tradition of John Dewey) who sought to empower the working class as decision-making participants in America's civil, social, and cultural order.
		The work of categorizing and commenting on Horton's ideas is difficult because of their localized and holistic nature: Horton rarely wrote for national publication but instead spoke to audiences for specific purposes, and his talks fluidly spill between varied topics and anecdotes.
		Horton's seemingly happenstance mode of explanation will frustrate readers who desire straight answers about his methods, but when Horton gives direct answers (usually taken from earlier in his career), the answers are brittle.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JVP/is_71/ai_n9774066 (1149 words)

	lh_enviro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Horton's plan for his Southern mountain school was to give back to the area he had come from and lead the people of Appalachia from within.
		Highlander started again in Knoxville, TN where Horton and others, "settled into a big house in a fl community, and we had a lot of support and protection from local labor unions." Still the buildings were firebombed but all survived.
		Myles Horton's Highlander Folk School was based on the ideas of the Danish High Schools.
	t.relaxpc.com /PepClass/pephome/stager/lh_enviro.htm (1068 words)

	Amazon.com: The Long Haul: An Autobiography: Books: Myles Horton,Judith Kohl,Herbert Kohl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Horton's Highlander Folk School (now the Highland Research and Education Center) helped to mobilize fl voter registration and to support unions and civil rights.
		Horton aspires to a world in which all "people are of worth.
		However, Horton's form of listening is not the type of listening I was taught nor the kind of listening I read in cutting edge research and respected textbooks.
	www.amazon.com /Long-Haul-Autobiography-Myles-Horton/dp/0807737003 (1502 words)

	Pts webpage2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Myles Horton was born on July 5, 1905, in Savannah, Tennessee.
		Horton had courage by founding a school no matter what the odds were against him (racism and working with fl people).
		Horton is often credited with being one of the sparks that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States.
	www.unc.edu /~cmyers/psample.html (317 words)

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		Jim Crow laws forbade integration, but Horton, a white man, invited fls and whites alike, and Highlander became one of the few places in the South where the two races could meet under the same roof.
		When Myles was facilitating workshops, he would stay in the background, keeping the discussion on track, encouraging people to make plans and take action, refusing to bring in experts to tell people what to do.
		So seriously did he take the idea that people should learn to trust their own experiences that one night, during the height of the union organizing, he found himself in a motel room with a strike committee in crisis.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~hfox/horton.html (770 words)

	Welcome To The ZenBox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The overall philosophy is best expressed by Myles Horton, "People have to believe that you genuinely respect their ideas and that your involvement with them is not just an academic excersize."(pg.
		Horton says, "I think of an educational workshop as a circle of learners.
		Horton said that he wanted information to be conveyed and spread in a "viral" way.
	www.myzenbox.com /??=content.classes.edc634.long (759 words)

	GIVE LIGH'
		Horton saw Highlander as a school for the poor of Appalachia, "dedicated to developing its students' capacities for both individual and collective self-determination," a place where the "learned helplessness" of the poor would be replaced with a willingness to take more control over their own lives.
		Horton’s first wife, Zilphia, played a particularly important role in preserving the music of the people Highlander worked with and in providing the music that helped give Highlander workshops their emotional definition.
		Like Septima Clark and Myles Horton, Miss Baker was sensitive to the way in which such class antagonisms, real or imagined, could un- dermine everything.
	www.niu.edu /~td0raf1/history468/jan2201.htm (11835 words)

	Remembering Paul Wellstone - Volume 17 No. 2 - Winter 2002/2003 - Rethinking Schools Online
		At the time, he was teaching political science at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. He had been there for 20 years, and I was astonished to discover an exuberant radical professor who seemed like he had just stepped out of an organizing meeting or a union workshop.
		Myles was the founder of the Highlander Folk Center, an education center in Tennessee that was deeply involved in the Civil Rights Movement and continues to be involved in social justice struggles.
		Sheila was also passionate and intelligent about creating what Miles Horton called "islands of decency in a sea of troubles." She also worked with the Senate's education committee and was a tireless advocate for children.
	www.rethinkingschools.org /archive/17_02/Paul172.shtml (842 words)

	Teachers College Press
		Myles Horton with Judith Kohl and Herbert Kohl
		In his own direct, modest, plain-spoken style, Myles Horton tells the story of the Highlander Folk School.
		Filled with disarmingly honest insight and gentle humor, this is an inspiring hymn to the possibility of social change.
	store.tcpress.com /0807737003.shtml (107 words)

	Myles Horton, Paulo Freire: We Make the Road by Walking - Print
		Myles Horton, who died in January 1990, was a major figure in the civil rights movement and founder of the Highlander Folk School, later the highlander Research and Education Center.
		"Horton, the recently deceased founder of the Highland Folk School, and Freire, a Brazilian education leader, were from two different backgrounds, but their shared views on the use of participatory education in bringing about social change are the basis for this thought-provoking, beautifully presented book.
		Arranged in the form of a written conversation, it provides an intimate view of two men who based their work upon the belief that a good education required three basic elements: love for people, respect for people's abilities to shape their own lives, and the capacity to value others' experiences.
	www.temple.edu /tempress/titles/804_reg_print.html (853 words)

	The Long Haul: An Autobiography Review and price (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In plain language, with humility, wit, and vigor, Horton recounts experiences, insights, and anecdotes gathered in his many years as an organizer and popular educator with the Highlander folk school in Tennessee, from the industrial union drives in the 30s, through the civil rights movement, and beyond.
		Myles Horton, and threads of the humanity who made up the Highlander School, championed the Appalachian working class, empowering them to stand up to the factory owners and politicians who used their lack of education against them.
		Horton was able to win the proud mountain people's respect and trust and help them to understand the foundations of the democracy within which they lived.
	www.wi-fitechnology.com /Wi-Fi-Products-0807737003.html (598 words)

	MSP Working Notes & Summaries
		Highlander, founded by Myles Horton (see Myles Horton, The Long Haul: An Autobiography), is an inspiring place, even for someone as jaded and, well, uninspirable, as I am.
		The idea that the questions are answerable based upon experience and that the answers are not known in advance by the facilitators is probably the hardest thing to achieve in practice.
		Another way to summarize this two-eyed approach (and it is the way Myles Horton put it, I think) is that those of us in a learning circle, but especially the facilitators, must keep one eye on where people are starting from and one eye on what they can become.
	www.msu.edu /~msp/doc/highland-rpt.htm (795 words)

	Adult Education for Community Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Myles Horton created the Highlander Folk School in Tennesse in 1932.
		Highlander taught thousands of fl adults to read so they could get voting rights, and the school was so effective in training fl leaders for the civil rights movement that in 1962 the school was forced to close.
		Horton believed that people have basic understanding of what they need to do.
	www.westcoast.org.nz /development/adulteduc.html (353 words)

	A Vocation that Calls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Although he does not phrase his calling in this same way, i sense that Myles Horton believed that the founding of the Highlander was an act of ministry.
		Although he did not serve as a minister to a specific denomination, Myles was called by his vocation to act ministerially.
		I am reminded of the time when Myles walked out of Reinie Niebuhr’s class saying, “I don’t understand a word you are talking about and I’m not going back in class.” Niebuhr lured him back into the classroom by saying, “Myles, you’ve got to stay.
	www.natewalker.org /vocation.htm (2740 words)

	Highlander Research and Education Center - Links
		"Myles Horton, Highlander Folk School and the Wilder Coal Strike of 1932" (PDF, 681 KB) by Angela Smith.
		Myles Horton: The Radical Hillbilly - By UAW Region 8 Webmaster John Davis - UAW Region 8 Activist Hall of Fame
		The majority of the Highlander archives from 1917 through 1987 -- as well as the papers of Myles Horton, Frank Adams, Septima Clark, and others associated with the Center -- are housed at the Wisconsin State Historical Society.
	www.highlandercenter.org /links.asp (2641 words)

	@GRASSROOTS.ORG/Highlander Research and Education Center
		This old truism of community organizing stands, as well as anything, for the principles that underlie the 60-year-old Highlander Center, which, to the extent that such a complex program can be boiled down to a single sentence, serves as a school for grassroots community organizers in the Appalachian and Southern states.
		Founded in 1932 by Myles Horton and a group of supporters as the Highlander Folk School, a "school for adults," where people of like spirit could meet, share their experiences and learn from each other, the center has continued with essentially little change in its basic principles.
		Unbowed, Horton moved the institution to Knoxville's inner city, and then, about two decades ago, to its current setting on 110 beautiful acres of hilltop meadow with a view of the Great Smoky Mountains, about 20 miles out into the countryside east of Knoxville.
	grass-roots.org /usa/highlander.shtml (715 words)

	Notes - AEE806 Session #14 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Myles started the Highlander Folk School in the 1930's which he opened to all oppressed people both fl and white.
		The purpose of the school was to help people to grow and change and to be empowered.
		Myles had a philosophy, it was both dynamic and constant using his base from childhood and changing it as he worked and studied.
	www.msu.edu /course/aee/806/snapshot.afs/levine/8061999/notes14.htm (259 words)

	The Nation: Myles Horton. (obituary)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		MYLES HORTON Myles Horton, who died at the age of 84 on January 19, founded and devoted his life to the Highlander Folk School, an experimental academy for working people and activists.
		Highlander had a seminal influence on the labor movement of the 1930s and the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
		The following is an excerpt from Horton's autobiography (written in collaboration with Herbert Kohl and Judith Kohl), to be published by Doubleday in April.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:8529801&refid=ink_tptd_mag (203 words)

	ABE Network - Fall 1988
		In his autobiography, Myles Horton, founder of the Higherlander Folk School in Tennessee, says in his final chapter, "Goals are unattainable in the sense that they always grow....The nature of my visions are to keep on growing beyond my conception." We may have short-term goals, but they must be a part of something larger.
		Horton goal that helps some people but hurts others." He says, "Your vision will grow, but you will never be able to achieve your goals as you envision them.
		As Myles Horton closes his book, he says, "My goal for the tree I planted in front of my house is for it to get big enough to shade the house, but that tree is not going to stop growing once it shades my house.
	www.readiowa.org /news/Abe_fl98.htm (2443 words)

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