Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov. The school should learn to think (№ 284354)

Mind, the ability to think independently, developed and refined in the course of individual development of the intellectual culture of the era. He, in fact, is not that other, as this is the mental culture, transformed into private property, in personal property, in the principle of personality. In the "mind" is nothing but that. This individualized spiritual wealth of society - to speak in lofty philosophical language.
And that, put simply, means that the mind ("talent", "ability", etc.) is a natural status of a person - the norm, not the exception. The normal result of the development of normal biologic brain in a normal human conditions.
On the other hand, the "stupid" people - person with a fatal flaw "of judgment" - is primarily a disfigured man, a man with a crippled brain. And this "scaletest" the authority of thinking is always the consequence of "abnormal", "unnatural" (from the point of view the true criteria of human culture) conditions - the result of a grossly violent "educational" effects on this delicate (especially at an early age) body.