What's the difference - is there a difference - between 'intelligent', 'educated', 'wise' and 'academic'? Are there intelligent people sweeping the streets or recyling on their cycles in Shanghai? There are educated people who are not intelligent - look at all the doctors that smoke - and there are academic people who are not wise for sure. The western world equates 'educated' with both 'wise' and 'intelligent' - quite wrongly in many cases I think.