Name some colleges where intellectual conversations "for fun" are common?

[BeeDAre]

no the kids at such schools are absolutely individually interested in philosophical debates etc but have neither the parental nor faculty interactions and certainly lesser exposure to alternate thoughts to supplement their curiosities. they are no less intelligent. they simply do not have access to the same avenues that one would get at the bastions of academia

Really?

I often had very in-depth intellectual conversations with my own father, who did not even graduate from high school, and who worked as a machinist in a factory.

Anyway, there are these things, they are called public libraries, filled with books and scholarly journals. Anyone has access to them.