The more interesting and powerful kind of anti-intellectualism is STEM-centrism. The same people who complain about lack of academic rigor demand that we gut the study of literature, art, music, theater, social sciences, etc. so that students can use the time to factor more equations and compute more integrals instead.<p>This is also down to value systems: I was raised in one that says education is meant to produce well-rounded intellectuals and good citizens, and &quot;they&quot; say it begins and ends with increasing the price of your labor in the marketplace.