If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in power, and … - Noam Chomsky

Real education is about getting people involved in thinking for themselves- and that's a tricky business to know how to do well, but clearly it requires that whatever it is you're looking at has to somehow catch people's interest and make them want to think, and make them want to pursue and explore.

power that isn’t really justified by the will of the governed should be dismantled.

State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson learned by Hitler and many others, and it has been pursued to this day.