"intellectual divide" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a significant difference or gap in knowledge, understanding, or intelligence among individuals or groups. Example: "The current political climate in the United States has highlighted the deep intellectual divide between liberals and conservatives."
I don't think it's a national divide so much as an intellectual divide.
What was wrong, instead, were three consequences of that intellectual divide that reflect very badly on the profession.
An animal couldn't ever really cross over the intellectual divide to understand a concept as oxymoronic as 'structured play'.
The civilized improbability of the Buckley-Galbraith comradeship, sustained across an intellectual divide and upon the ski slopes of Gstaad, made each into the other's best-known unlikely friend.
But the truth is that the governments on both sides of the intellectual divide could go a long way to making their models work better, without changing their underlying beliefs.On the continental side, there is nothing especially socially cohesive about labour laws that favour insiders over outsiders, or rules that make the costs of starting a business excessive.
Stunned into a state of fawning idolatry after Rita agrees to marry him, Gordon rationalizes away the glaring intellectual divide that separates them, lavishing upon his unlikely bride a lifetime of deferred adoration, a $25,000 checking account and — the ultimate prize — the prospect of a green card.
Professor Walcott, who is often decribed as the greatest West Indian writer and intellectual, divides his time between St Lucia and New York and does not often travel to the UK.
It also embroiled him in conflict with his friend, Jean-Paul Sartre, provoking the major political-intellectual divide of the Cold-War era as Camus and Sartre became, respectively, the leading intellectual voices of the anti-Communist and pro-Communist left.
Table tennis is played by athletes with a physical or intellectual disability divided into 11 classes.
Mexican leaders and intellectuals, sharply divided over President Ernesto Zedillo's decision to send the police to break up the strike, squared off for a protracted political fight over the strikers who are in jail.
In the days after this quake, intellectuals were divided between the impulse to hold fast with the government at a time of crisis and the urge to point out failures in leadership.
