Myles Horton moved from religious worldview to structural social analysis through graduate study

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I had grown up in a religious world and was trying to get beyond that to understand the broader economic, cultural, and social contexts in which things happened” (Horton, 1990, p. 26). This led Horton to pursue graduate studies in New York City and Chicago where he researched not only the intellectual history behind radical reform, but also the practical knowledge on how to apply these ideas. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 762