We Make the Road by Walking Conversations on Education and Social Change with Myles Horton and Paulo Freire

"For me there is a certain sensualism in writing and reading - and in teaching, in knowing. I cannot separate them. Knowing for me is not a neutral act, not only from the political point of view, but from the point of view of my body, my sensual body. It is full of feelings, if emotions, of tastes." (PF)

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"I am convinced that in order for us to create something, we need to start creating." (PF)

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"One of the tasks of the educator is also to provoke the discovering of need for knowing and never to impose the knowledge whose need was not yet perceived." (PF)

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"Liberation and salvation are social events and not individual ones." (PF)

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On founding the Highlander Folk School:

"I knew I was going to do something in adult education in the mountains all along, but I didn't know what form it would take, how to go about it." (MH)

"I didn't know what I knew. But I kept talking about it and thinking about it, and that experience was kind of tucked away, not right up front. It was there in my psych, always nagging at me, but I couldn't quite get at it. The reason I couldn't get at it was because I was trying to fit things into the traditional way of doing things. I couldn't see how this was a part of anything that I knew anything about and I couldn't quite bring myself to think there were ways of doing things outside the system... It didn't really ring a bell very loud. The bell was ringing but was very low, and when it would start ringing I'd kind of cover it up so I wouldn't have to listen to it, because I didn't understand it." (MH)

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