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Intellectuals Defined

class='define'>Similar to intelligentsia, those who are perceived by themselves and by others as forming an intellectual or learned class. Karl Marx thought that the support of at least some members of the intellectual class was necessary for a successful socialist revolution. It is sometimes claimed that American society is on the whole suspicious of intellectuals, because intellectualism smacks of elitism, which is contrary to the American democratic tradition. It is a rare politician who admits to having intellectual interests; the down-home, man-of-the-people image is considered a better vote-getter.

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  • The Disadvantages of an Elite Education: an article by William Deresiewicz about how universities should exist to make minds, not careers | The American Scholar: Being an intellectual begins with thinking your way outside of your assumptions and the system that enforces them. But students who get into elite schools are precisely the ones who have best learned to work within the system, so it?s almost impossible for them to see outside it, to see that it?s even there. Long before they got to college, they turned themselves into world-class hoop-jumpers and teacher-please rs, getting A?s in every class no matter how boring they found the teacher or how pointless the subject, racking up eight or 10 extracurricula r activities no matter what else they wanted to do with their time. Paradoxically, the situation may be better at second-tier schools and, in particular, again, at liberal arts colleges than at the most prestigious universities. Some students end up at second-tier schools because they?re exactly like students at Harvard or Yale, only less gifted or driven. But others end up there because they
  • Foreign Policy: The Top 100 Public Intellectuals: Bios

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