The book is also the story of Myles Horton, founder of the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. He recounts his experiences as a young boy growing up in the Appalachian Mountains, going to college, his work with the liberal student arm of the YMCA and discovering and visiting Danish folk high schools. All this was preparation for setting up a school for working people back in the mountains. He tells how, after its first year, staff realised they weren't reaching the people they wanted and "saw problems that we thought we had the answers to, rather than seeing the problems and the answers that the people had themselves".
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