Almost every second Russian believes that there is no intellectual

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ease was Lenin call intellectuals by shit . No risk , like Putin . Besides Ilich with characteristic genius of world revolution prescient felt the withering away of this social phenomenon. Especially as it was he who led the funeral team . So the intelligentsia can not count : it is not over, as the Greek soothsayers and shamans in the streets of the modern city.

Left intellectuals . This concept is more vague . In the market of intelligent sexual services now in demand , for example , the ability to jump ahead superiors and talent to justify these desires . And this demand is an extensive offering of our intellectuals. But I'm certainly not about them . If you look for a prototypical image of an intellectual , that is, of course , Professor (that's right : with a capital "P "). It combines ( in a prototypical ideal) scientific depth and thoroughness with the gift of a teacher. Both are supplemented by independent thought and self-esteem. Professor - is publicized appearance of the educational industry fell today. Socrates - is not only related to the truth and to a method of obtaining it , but it's relation to itself , to power, to the right.

I do not want to spread about the current government , with its biological fear of this culture, science , independence , self-esteem - in front of all that is embodied (or should be implemented ) in the Professor . It's all clear . I am more important to understand - who are the current professor in Russia . I do not doubt their scientific knowledge and pedagogical talent (although there are assholes , but Putin is not to judge .) But neither the knowledge nor the teacher talent is worthless without the independence and self-esteem. They are all the more important , the more power and seeks to suppress that, and more.

The fact that the Earth is round, more amenable to implementation in the brains of society with the authority of science . But self-esteem people do not privesh scientific arguments in the most ambitious pedagogical talents. Only by example .

Georgy Satarov