intellectualism or anti-intellectualism and Buddhism

From my perspective, the Buddha's Teaching is reductive and subtractive. It's experiential and fundamental for knowing how to die well. It's good for transcending the ego by dissolving into all to find freedom from suffering. The object is not to gain anything. Intellectual knowledge can help but little intellect is required. Sometimes intellect can get in the way. One can start a practice by just practicing. Nobody want's to avoid the labor of hard thought because the practice isn't to think, it's to experience. It's Satipatthana. It's understanding the difference between words or other concepts and experiential reality. Does the Buddha's teaching require much intellect? What is anti-intellectualism in Buddhism?