Gerald Graff’s journal article Hidden Intellectualism shows that everyone is an intellectual whether they are aware of it or not. Using mainly ethos, he describes how sports can be a form of intellectualism because of the use of logic. He says it beautifully here, “I see now that sports provided me with something comparable to the saturation of life by argument… that my preference for sports over schoolwork was not anti-intellectualism so much as intellectualism by other means.” Most students tend
Anti-Intellectualism: America’s mysterious downfall Bullying statistics suggest that at least one out of every four kids will be bullied sometime throughout their youth. Children may be bullied for a variety of reasons, including attracting positive attention, being intelligent, having personal vulnerabilities, having few to no friends, popularity, unattractive features, disabilities, sexual orientation, uncommon beliefs, or even race. Among these reasons for bullying is a very important one many
education/What college is for? Intellectualism? Have you ever thought what it really means? Does it come naturally or with time and effort? Hidden intellectualism by Gerald Graff explores the concept of street smart incorporated with intelligence, while What College is for? By Gary Gutting explores the theme of books and teachers that will help us achieve intellectualism. These two essays may be different, but contain similar ideas such as intellectualism. They both state that is is important
Essay #1: Hidden Intellectualism by Gerald Graff In his essay “Hidden Intellectualism,” Gerald Graff discussed his hatred towards typical academic subjects, and love for sports. The essay is about the many cases of people not using their gifted talents to their best ability. Are you smart, but secretly acting dumb in public to get attention? Do you waste your knowledge trying to fit in with others? He thinks street smarts is an example of intelligence. “Everyone knows some young person
In “Hidden Intellectualism,” Gerald Graff pens an impressive argument wrought from personal experience, wisdom and heart. In his essay, Graff argues that street smarts have intellectual potential. A simple gem of wisdom, yet one that remains hidden beneath a sea of academic tradition. However, Graff navigates the reader through this ponderous sea with near perfection. The journey begins at the heart of the matter, with a street smart kid failing in school. This is done to establish some common ground
In Gerald Graff's article "Hidden Intellectualism," he discusses his ideas about intellectualism and traditional academic thinking. Graff contends street smarts are as important, if not more important, than academic prowess. Graff feels challenging students on topics that are interesting to them is the best way to improve their academic performance. Graff points out many young people with street smarts struggle to translate their intelligence into the academic world. He says schools may be at
schools actually limit on areas of study and overlook the essential of real life experience? In the article “Hidden Intellectualism”, Gerald Graff claims that schools and colleges are might at fault due to their omission of the “street smarts”-knowledge necessary to deal with reality-, and their failure to invest them into academic work. By stating the fundamental of intellectualism and the influence of personal interests, he informs readers that those street smarts,
Chad Decker Professor Kelly Elcock English 101 16 September 2015 Street Smart or Class Smart from Hidden Intellectualism The author elaborates the confusion that comes about when people think of someone who is smart in the streets but fails to exercise the same in the classroom. In many instances, those who are believed to be capable of maneuvering their ways in the streets are capable of surviving in rough neighborhoods. Alternatively, those who seem to be smart in class may not be capable of effectively
into what society wants us to be. For those that see that there is nothing wrong with being street smart, they choose to be dauntless enough to try to convince society that they are in charge of their own fate. In Gerald Graff’s essay Hidden Intellectualism, he says to “give me the student anytime who writes a sharply argued, sociologically acute analysis of an issue in Source over the student who writes a lifeless expectation of Hamlet or Socrates Apology” (Graff 251). So, let’s make an imaginative
In, “Hidden Intellectualism”, Gerald Graff takes a deeper look into the argument of “street smart” versus “book smarts” and why one is viewed to be more “intellectual” than the other. The essay is adapted from his 2003 book, “Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind”. Graff, a professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois in Chicago, wrote this book to persuade his audience, whom of which could be anyone at any age with “book smarts” or “street smarts” (specifically
According to “Hidden Intellectualism”, Gerald Graff says that “ Everyone knows some young person who is impressively “street smart” but does poor in school” ( Gerald Graff 244). He explains that to many people believe that one who is so intelligent in life cannot do well in academic work, and he or she needs spend extra time on his or her school works than things in sports. However, Graff used his own anti-intellectual experience to verify his opinion that street smarts are simply as important
In my analysis I will focus on “Hidden Intellectualism” an excerpt from “They Say/I Say.” Gerald Graff argues that schools and colleges are missing opportunities with street smart students. He feels that “…the education life is too narrowly and exclusively with subjects and texts...” (Graff 1). Graff believes that through his own experiences as a kid, caring only for sports, Graff attempts to persuade fellow professors of his beliefs of missing opportunities in such students. He talks about the
Graff takes a logical approach to defending his opinion on the age old battle of “street smarts versus book smarts” in the article “Hidden Intellectualism”. Through several historical and personal examples, he strongly delivers an argument that schools have been discounting students who may not think academically. In reality the students who can relate articles from sources like Vouge and Sports Illustrated to life may be the ones who will truly be successful. Throughout his writing, he uses many
In Grant Penrod’s “Anti-Intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids” he goes onto explain how as a society today we seem to have a built in hatred for those who are intellectuals. The main point I believe Penrod is trying to get across is that many people tend to overlook those who are intellectuals and tend single out and stop intellectuals. In Penrod’s essay he a great example of intellectuals being overshadowed by athletes by telling us how the Mountain View football team had won their state
to the top of the food chain, the actual learning portion is either set aside or forgotten altogether. In Grant Penrod’s essay, Anti-Intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids, he explains how modern children are growing to dislike intellectual children. The varying social ranks teach children to ignore low grades and try to be popular in school. Anti-Intellectualism is a trend which is becoming increasingly popular throughout the world. People who only strive to be popular tend to tease intellectuals
In a world where high school dropout stories are prevalent, the public is beginning to shun intellectualism on a greater degree than ever before. Although top-performing athletes in high school get showered with recognition by their peers, students who equally flourish in the field of academics rarely get acknowledged as much as their athletic counterparts. In his essay, “Anti-Intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids,” Grant Penrod proves this assertion. Wishing to capture the audience, Penrod
Langston Hughes “Theme for English B” and Gerald Graff’s essay “Hidden Intellectualism” portray racial separation and intellectual isolation, respectively. Hughes’ essay is poetic justice, and Graff’s is a call to arms. Hughes’ is short and to the point and is simply what it is, no arguing or convincing, just raw thought. Graff’s is highly intellectual; offering examples and reasoning, and it could even be seen as a not-quite-finished plea to the nation to reevaluate our education system. But the
In his essay "Hidden Intellectualism," Gerald Graff argues that intellectualism is not something that can only be taught through proper education like school or college, but with subjects that people consider non academics as sports, cars, or popular culture. The writer considers "street smart" to those people who learn things outside of an academic environment, for example in the streets of their neighborhood or their parent’s professions like being a mechanic. The writer argues that educators should
In “Hidden Intellectualism”, author and professor Gerald Graff describes his idea of what book smarts and streets smarts actually are. He details how new ideas can help to teach and build our educational system into something great and that perhaps street smarts students could be the factor that traditional education is missing that could make it great. Graff begins by talking about the educational system, and why it flawed in many ways, but in particular, one: Todays schools overlook the intellectual
Eisenhower administration seems to be a thing of the past. Intellectualism has restored their respect with new ideals with all respect in affairs of the state. With McCarthyism in the past intellectuals can speak on anti-intellectual movement with pride and without fear. However, the anti-intellectual movement did not just get started. American has a long written history of quarrels between the intellectuals and the people. Intellectualism is being ambulant fluctuating from time to time different