Beatty tells Montag, “With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be,” (Bradbury 55). Beatty is explaining how intelligence is a minority. Intellect’s main foundation is books. We receive most of our intelligence from books that people have written so information can be passed through generations. Censorship would deprive us of our learning capabilities. Censorship would create a world without a structural foundation of diversity, curiosity, and intelligence. We cannot advance our knowledge or technology if issues are being concealed from us. Fahrenheit 451 is in the futuristic time frame. Censorship could become a serious issue in the future, but we can prevent it by being individuals. Being different is classified as wrong in society, but it is what keeps our society functioning