perhaps?

I believe that in terms of "academic level" and "institution" that we must think more broadly - in terms of what is learned theoretically from lectures/discussions/reading/studying (the intellectural element) in a university or college of higher education; plus what is learned in more practical environments (the technical element) such as laboratories/field work/practice.

"Intellectual" refers to the study of (abstract)theories, e.g. philosophy. This usually comes under an Arts degree. You're learning about ideas and how to discuss and argue ideas. You learn how to think.

Technical definitely refers to science. Doing experiments, carrying out tests etc.



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Hello Alfredo - to make myself clear, I'm not saying technology is any less intellectual than the world of academia, merely that studying the technical sciences usually has a more hands-on approach than the world of Arts.

Hi Jianming,
I see this as studying the arts or sciences.

Intellectual
Art, literature, music, philosophy, history, religion, etc.

Technical
Engineering, Medicine, Chemistry, Biology, Geology, etc.

I disagree with the answer selected by Jianming not because what is implied is wrong, but because it is largely incomplete. The term technical in the context provided would appear to mean applied. Intellectual constructs of an applied nature often have nothing to do with machines or hands, rather they have to do with the merging of our external, objective reality with our internal subjective mental pursuits. What may be logical and therefore appear objective may be very far from the reality that it seeks to describe. Only through experimentation and genuine attempts at application can we know that the correspondence is genuine.