What is meant by the term "intellectual snobbery"?

Answer 1

I'm having a hard time "defining" the term, but I can give you an example.

If I answer this question, and you decide that my answer is not as valid as an answer given by someone who went to Harvard, that would be intellectual snobbery, because you're automatically giving the other person more credit.

Of course, I'm extremely unimpressed by my own answer, so maybe it would be fair in this case. :o)

Answer 2

Intellectual snobbery is the exclusionary belief that those of lesser educational background are necessarily less intelligent, less skilled, less creative etc. Like other forms of snobbery, intellectual snobbery seeks to exclude those deemed to be of a lesser class from participating in intellectual discussions, belonging to associations or clubs, holding higher status positions (professorships etc.) and career progression.

Intellectual snobbery is detrimental in that it assumes the attainment of a degree with superiority and overlooks the possibility that innovation and invention can arise from people of all educational backgrounds

Answer 3

Intellectual snobbery is the perception that anyone who doesn't meet your ideal of an intellectual is not worthy of your attention and has nothing to teach you about life.

Answer 4

Intellectual snobbery is an attitude of superiority held by someone who is highly either highly educated, or just considers themselves to be better educated, more articulate, and more well-read than average folks.

Answer 5

Snobbery be it intellectual, financial. or social, is division or a separating. Snobbery in any form makes me sad.

Answer 6

It makes me think of people who think they have all the right answers because they have a high IQ. Experience has shown me that they are usually right about 85% of the time (hey - they're smart), but the enjoyment they get out of asking difficult, brain challenging questions to "less-brilliant" folks, or the way they put down "regular people" is a nasty game they live for - which makes them intellectual snobs in my view.

Answer 7

intellectual snobbery is another person getting a job instead of me simply because they have a uni degree and I don't.... even though I may have more experience..

an example of intellectual snobbery was when my younger brother put me down and told me I was a brainless piece of dog s*** because he got school certificate and I didn't.

I was thrown out of home at 13 and had no chance of achieving the high school certificate.

Revenge on intellectual snobbery was me grabbing his certificate and holding it behind my back and looking at him sweetly saying.... "Okay smarty.now show me how smart you are.... spell 'certificate'.

And he couldn't...

Answer 8

intellectual snobs think they're above other people who aren't as book smart as they be live they are. whereas the truly smart know everyone has their own strengths, some are good at math or medicine some can cook others are mechanical. it takes all to keep this society moving along from the trash man to the surgeon and neither is superior to the other

Answer 9

Individuals thinking that or actually ARE more intelligent than others. One can have the greatest or highest intellect possible, but that doesn't make them "wise". Its like racism but on a different level. The same can be applied to being rich too.... One can have all the money in the world but that doesn't mean they have "wealth".

Answer 10

People who think that their education is far superior to others and they become the know-it-all. They know everything and everyone else is a moron because they are one step away from being the Supreme Being. In other words, they are just idiots with a better vocabulary. We have a saying at work which I think sums it up.

“I would like to buy him for what he is worth and sell him for what he thinks he’s worth.”