Which colleges for genuine intellectuals?

BIGTWIX
Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:36:09 +0000

for traditional intellectuality, U Chicago and Reed. Columbia is great too.
U Chicago and Columbia both have extensive core curriculum.

Reed has none (im pretty sure).

St. Johns is crazy. The most intellectual school on earth.
Super small classes, 4 year core curriculum.
The core i think is called “the great books” curriculum.
You have a few science classes, i think a few language classes, and the rest is purely books (at least to my knowledge)

i was told that the schools philosophy is that by studying the “great books” by the great authors of the world, that they can impart some of their greatness upon the students etc etc.

Here is a list of books you read in the first 2 months of freshman year.

Illiad- Homer
Meno- Plato
Agamemnon- Aeschylus
Gorgias- Plato
Lives - Plutarch
History- Herodotus
Republic- Plato
Clouds- Aristophanes
Apology-plato
Crito-plato
Phaedo-plato

yeah, those are the books you read in your first 2 months at St. Johns. Well you don’t just read them, you study them to death and become as knowledgeable about the book as the authors themselves.