Who's better? Boston or LA?

Education: Boston Boston is considered the Athens of America, and for good reason. The place is crawling with eggheads. Harvard and MIT alone have racked up dozens of Nobel Prizes, and filled the op-ed pages of newspapers from coast to coast. By contrast, no one's ever accused LA of being a bastion of brainiacs.

Education: Boston

Boston is considered the Athens of America, and for good reason. The place is crawling with eggheads. Harvard and MIT alone have racked up dozens of Nobel Prizes, and filled the op-ed pages of newspapers from coast to coast. By contrast, no one's ever accused LA of being a bastion of brainiacs.

(Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff)