"To sneer at intellectuality is madness. If a person does not develop his mind he is denying his humanity. For there are only two really human triats - the heart and the intellect. To the extent to which a man does not develop his mind (hence also his heart), he is unhuman, not a man, unmanly - however much he may be a 'he-man.' Since being in the garicultural world, no subject has so continuously and so spontaneously presented itself to me as the problem of education. Up till now the powerful Few have not wished to encourage the Many to become aware of Mind, and most obligingly, the Many have therfore despised it and sneered at 'book-learning.' But we have to pay so dearly for the faculty of mind that if we do not make the best of it, we might just as well be animals. This gift is our specific means of becoming more - alive. Two things are essential to the rela life of man, and neither can be supplied by Act of Parliament: love and intelligence - all else is the machinery of life."
The Worm Forgives the Plough by John Stewart Collis  1946