collaboration

Collaboration. In order to make intellectual statements, you must collaborate with another intellectual. An intellectual may consist of many different types of people. The student, the teacher, the uneducated janitor... anyone can be considered an intellectual. Sharing your thoughts must be communicated to another person, whether he or she may be contributing to the idea or not, would be decided by their amount of knowledge on the subject, however, all imputs are necessary. Together, doctors influence diagnosis's of a patient for generations to come. Their research combines into the most valuable to human society while they make meaning and combat eachothers ideas and they prove or disprove theories.
In a classroom setting, the teacher is the operator, and the students are the operations. It is their job to decipher what the teacher is formally announcing to her students. In groups, their is a leader, workers, and piggy backers. Everyone has their own attributions to the group whether as idea formers, progressors, or followers. To make intellectual statements the entire group must form, rework, revise, and devise the plan in order to form what they agree on as a whole.
Take writing for example. As a writer, I read someone else's work and take their opinion on something. Then i decide how I feel about what they have written, thought about, and decided to use as a writer. Next, I take what I have felt to be true, elaborated, and edlted and put that all onto the paper I will take credit for. This is called academic writing, "writing about other people's writing" and made into something of our own. It take multiple intellects in order to come by a finish project. An idea is only that of many combined.