Intellectual Diversity is the notion college students are presented with one side to an argument in relation to politics. Specifically, the majority of colleges are liberal and therefore, outnumbering the amount of conservative ones. Thus, students only receive education based on one form of political ideology. David Horowitz, who wants Intellectual Diversity mandated into schools, explains young adults experience one-sided politics while growing up. College is supposed to expand a person’s Intellectual Diversity, not limit it. Students should be taught both liberal and conservative views and then choose for themselves which view they agree with more. On the other hand, Stanley Fish, Horowitzs primary opponent, opposes the idea of initiating Intellectual Diversity into colleges. While both contentions demonstrate conflicting positions, the decision rests in the individual who is analyzing the research to choose a particular side. Intellectual Diversity is construed numerous ways and has a contrary meaning depending upon the person.
David Horowitz, the leading contributor to Intellectual Diversity, is a conservative activist and writer. He is also well known for penning the Academic Bill of Rights. David Horowitz argues the balance between liberals and conservatives are disproportional in terms of the teachings undergone in universities. Students receive indoctrination rather than instruction. His hypothesis states there is more to Intellectual Diversity than just academics. The span of Intellectual Diversity is engulfed in our daily lives not just contained within our academic lives.
If social institutions do not embrace the concept of Intellectual Diversity, then future adults are somewhat doomed because both perceptio...
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They also relatably talk of the way that they affect students in their higher education. In Gerald Graff’s essay about hidden intellectualism it is implied that we all have intellect within us. It just may be show in different ways among different people. He offers the example that a love for learning about anything can later be converted into a love for learning about academic subjects. Where in the second essay we talk more about people who have feelings of anti-intellectualism which we learn is a negative feeling towards intellect or learning itself. You could say that those who feel anti-intellectualism tend to have dwindling desires to continue in school and gaining this so called intellect, leading them to complacency in their education. Whereas those who have increased desire to further their intellects will tend to stay on a path of fulfillment and
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 essay, “Diversity: The Value of Discomfort” is an argument written by Ronald L Leibowitz in which he addresses a group of graduates about the value of diversity in college. To me, diversity means the unique backgrounds which influence people’s thoughts, ideas, and opinions. Each of the factors in an individual’s background makes them unique, and creates an important facet of our communities. However, we need to recognize and understand diversity, and simply “celebrating” it is not enough—we must embrace it in our colleges, workplaces, neighborhoods, and larger societies.
Arizona State University (2005), stated humans have learned to be prejudiced “through evolution as an adaptive response to protect ourselves from danger”. However, this instinct goes wrong because a majority of people are unable to see past prejudices and develop better understandings of their environments. This often results in harmful acts between different groups and would suggest that it must be controlled if not eliminated. Based on Rauch's thinking however, prejudice and its developments should not be removed from public environments like the university campus because it is necessary to have true intellectual pluralism based on unfiltered human thoughts. The question remains of whether the benefits of intellectual pluralism have to come at the cost of allowing harmful acts of prejudice to exist. In the university setting, the answer is no. So long as universities work to channel prejudice as a means of advancing knowledge the way Rauch believes it should, the negative developments of prejudice that people attempt to eradicate would be kept to a
Schwartz, Stuart, and Craig Conley. Human Diversity: A Guide for Understanding. 14th ed. New York: McGraw-Hills Primis Custom Publishing, 2000. 3-7. Print.
It is Addison’s belief that one enters the college experience as a rookie (Addison 213). This theory contradicts Murray’s thought that not every person would benefit from a college-level liberal education. Addison also believes that ...
In today’s economy, it is essential that minorities seek out and embrace these opportunities. It is also important that we all encourage minorities to consider the economic and cultural impact they can have on the diversity of global innovation and that we all support those organizations and individuals that strive to help those brave and savvy enough to pave the way for future generations and businesses. I agree that more minorities should become intellectual scholars because it is important to have more minorities who are intellectual in this so called world of perception fueled intellectual people or better known as potential scholars and intellectuals.
As a student at Temple University, one is required to TAKE classes apart of the Intellectual Heritage Program in order to receive an undergraduate degree. The argument persists as to whether or not the Intellectual Heritage Program is a necessary part of a student’s general undergraduate education. Through my experience in taking both IH 851 and IH 852 programs, I found that the Intellectual Heritage Program administered a number of benefits, as well as flaws concerning the education that I gained from it, how the material was taught, and the texts I was required to analyze.
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, but they interpret it differently. Gutting describes intellect as something a person can achieve through reading and studying, which make you book smart, while Graff mentions that you don 't have to be book smart in order to be intelligent. Second topic they agree on is openness. Gutting mentions that a student should be open to his teacher 's style of teaching, whereas, Graff argues that students should embrace their own learning style and teachers should accommodate with
* Kramer, Martin, and stephen S. Weiner. Dialogues for diversity : community and ethnicity on campus. Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1994.
Politics and business influence have been a long term problem for the establishment of a free and fair education opportunity. America has been called ?the melting pot? of the world, meaning that within the nation live such an abundance of individuals from different aspects of life. Within the world, we find some societies less fortunate than other societies. Economic diversity is present within the United States as well. It is commonly understood that the wealthy are becoming better educated than the poor, and similarly that the wealthy have a better chance to survive in the economic growth of today?s society.
Essentially, students may have the tendency to have similar or more significant interests in front of peers in order to feel accepted when participating in class. In Sheen S. Levine and David Stark’s article, “Diversity Makes You Brighter” the authors emphasize how participants in a study who were in diverse company had 58 percent more accurate answers in a stock project (2). If colleges were to begin diversifying their campuses, students would be surrounded by individuals who do not share similar characteristics. Expanding the amount of diverse students on college campuses make a student feel more independent which can lead to an increase in honest results in the knowledge of college students. Evidently, broadening the diversification of colleges contributes to educational
Anderson, M, L, Taylor, H, F. (2008). Sociology. Understanding a Diversity Society. Thomson Higher Education. Belmont. (USA). Fourth Edition.
Diversity is a value that shows respect for the differences and similarities of age, sex, culture, ethnicity, beliefs and much more. Having a diverse organization, helps notice the value in other people and also how to teach respect to people that might not know how. The world is filled with different cultures and people that might believe in different things as you, but that doesn’t mean you need to treat them any different. It is imperative for people to grasp diversity because it’ll help people how to engage with others in a respectful yet a hospitable way.
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 people fail to realize and this is anti-intellectualism. Anti-intellectualism is hostility towards, opposition, and mistrust of intellectuals or people with intellectual views. Anti-intellectualism basically believes that academics or any form of professionalism isn’t important to listen to because it doesn’t have much “common sense”. Intellectualism is usually expressed throughout education, philosophy, literature, art, and science.