“Birds will take advantage of a tailwind, and when the wind is blowing the other way, they’ll hole up. They won’t exhaust their strength going against that wind for long when they’d make only a few miles a day or get blown backward. They rest, because if they rest that day and restore their strength, the next day they can more than make up what they lost by not going…They change their course year after year on the basis of the particular situation. They never come back exactly the same way twice because the conditions are never the same, but they always get to their destination. They have a purpose, a goal. They know where they are going, but they zigzag and they change tactics according to the situation.”
Myles Horton, The Long Haul: An Autobiography (New York: Teachers College Press, 1999),80.
Quoted in
Sapon-Shevin, Mara, and Nancy Schniedewind, Educational Courage: Resisting the Ambush of Public Education. (Boston: Beacon Press, 2012).
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