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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP if you are looking for intellectual within the US you must restrict your search to the Ivy League colleges and the highest ranking SLACs.

Then look outside the country. McGill in Canada, Oxford and Cambridge in the UK, Queens Belfast, Trinity Dublin, The Sorbonne, University of Bologna, and so on.[/quote]

This is just wrong (in about every possible way).  [b]Not all Ivies are intellectual.[/b]  The highest ranked SLACS aren’t inherently more intellectual than lower ranked SLACS.  McGill is no more (or less) intellectual than Berkeley.  Sorbonne isn’t France’s Oxbridge analogue, and so on.  [/quote]

If you keep repeating this, maybe you will start to believe it at least. No one else does. And you use zero facts to back up your blanket statements.[/quote]

Equally true of the statement I responded to.  In fact, my “blanket statement” was essentially, that these blanket statements are uninformed.  FWIW, I’m an Ivy-educated academic with friends at McGill, Oxbridge, and Sorbonne.  This whole discussion is ludicrous since what constitutes intellectual culture is undefined and, wrt universities, the dominant undergraduate culture is rarely going to be intellectual (however defined).  [/quote]

Which is why I asked where there is more intellectual culture (students, learning for learning's sake, intellectual discussions and interests) rather than less.  The U. of Chicago was known for more in the last few decades (and probably before).  Not sure about now because they changed their marketing to attract a range of student types.  But it sounds like it it still attracts intellectually-minded students.[/quote]

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