Intelligence is a kind of ability of self - awarenessand is the basis for cultivating students’thinking habits and self - de- velopmentin education. However,there is an obvious phenomenon of overlook of intelligence in education practice. Therefore,in the process of educational reform,we need to understand anew the meaning of intellectual education in the presence of reason and wisdom on the basis ofthe connotation of intellectual education,systematically analyze the forgotten or marginalized intellectual performance. That means we can help people better understand the value of intellectual education,and then improve intellectual education through the spiritual turn,and gradually realize students’intellectual consciousness. For the improvement of intellectual education in reality, teachers should be a wise guidance who caninspire their students to think,construct the educational content of harmonious coexistence of cultural edification and professional education,and transform education into the process of experiencing and discovering fun,and fully highlight students’unique intellectual nature.