"The deliberate cultivation, nay, inculcation of ignorance, the premeditated breeding of stupidity has brought our bright planet to the brink of irrecoverable night...The general impression is that stupidity is a natural condition easily measured and rated by intelligence tests, a quasi genetic quality. But I tell you that stupidity is  an unnatural condition, that each of us has all the equipment necessary to sharply observe and conclude, to imagine and calculate, and that the degree to which this capacity is or is not realized is a matter of social responsibility."

Julian Beck
New York City
Doctor's Hospital
April 1st 1984