Sinapsis Award
This program has been in operation since November 1998. The award has been redesigned some times, in September 2000 instead of the original single level there are now three levels, Gold, Silver and Bronze.
Jack Miles, Senior Advisor to the President at the J. Paul Getty Trust and author of God: A Biography, in his article THREE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AN ACADEMIC AND AN INTELLECTUAL: WHAT HAPPENS TO THE LIBERAL ARTS WHEN THEY ARE KICKED OFF CAMPUS? indicates:
The first: “An academic has and wants an audience disproportionately made up of teachers and students, while an intellectual has and wants teachers and students in his audience only in proportion to their place in the general educated public”.
The second: “Is the familiar difference between a specialist and a generalist, the academic being the specialist and the intellectual the generalist”.
The last: “The third difference between an intellectual and an academic is the relative attachment of each to writing as a fine rather than a merely practical art”.
Synapse: the junction across which a nerve impulse passes from an axon terminal to a neuron, muscle cell, or gland cell.
Intellectual: of or relating to the intellect.
Intellect: The ability to learn and reason; the capacity for knowledge and understanding. The ability to think abstractly or profoundly.
Attitude: a state of mind or a feeling; disposition.
Those are the points what we are looking for.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.