"To one side of society lies the academy, the university, with all the attendant dangers of aridity and isolation. To the other lies what is now called the media, with all its potential for stupidity. In the middle you find the theatre, the place where, traditionally, through a distinctive mixture of practicality and highmindedness, people (again, like Shakespeare) have been able to develop their own education. The theatre is what the British have always been good at. It's worth fighting for, precisely because it's auto-didactic. It puts things under the microscope and people can learn for themselves. Art teaches in a way instruction never can."
David Hare
Acting Up
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