Anti-intellectualism

Leonid Fridman in his article “America Needs Its Nerds” (1990) proposes that “For America’s sake the anti-intellectual values that pervade our society must be fought.” Fridman accomplishes the by first spelling out how the meaning of the terms geek and nerd are derogatory, secondly, he explains how at prestigious colleges “nerds are ostracized while athletes are idolized.” Third, Fridman describes how other countries treat the intellectually serious: hold them and teacher above athletes. Fridman…

The paper “Hidden Intellectualism” by: Gerald Graff is a very interesting and thought-provoking essay. Graff’s main theme appears to be that school should use topics that students are interested in to teach them, in which I agree because it allows students to make connections from their life outside of school. The main idea is very well supported by studies done by research. The essay starts out with the problem that knowing about the outside world is useless in today's schools. “One who is…

people who study. He even says that they are ostracised while athletes are idolized. This happens in other schools too. Not just an IV school like Harvard. There are students who are ostracized fro their intelligence and refuse to conform to society's anti-intellectual values. They don't get along with other kids because they are smart and don't even play sports. Sometimes the non-nerds get wasted. That is…

In high schools across America, students are first exposed to the dismaying trend of anti-intellectualism through the concepts of tracking and career placement, political correctness, cultural parallels, educational values, and curriculum standards like Common Core. Disturbing aspects common to this trend are standardization of curricula and a limited point of view when investigating ideas and and drawing conclusions. In many peoples’ opinion, America is turning towards Socialist ideas and…

because they have common sense and have the ability to overcome problems of everyday life through the gained knowledge of experience. English and education professor Gerald Graff from the University of Illinois at Chicago uses his article, “Hidden Intellectualism” to discuss the importance of integrating “street smarts” with academics in order to help assist students in educational learning. Graff believes that knowledge goes beyond the academic settings and into the everyday life experiences.…

authors, Mike and Graff appearance how the intellectualism work in school is not either rational neither being developed accordingly. Suppose you were in school and as you spent many hours to studying about angles memorizing history, doing the math and writing these in class which can train you to success in your lifetime of education. In Rose’s article, he found the intelligence of blue-collar workers, in the meantime, Graff considered the “hidden” intellectualism interior topical collective…

Hidden Intellectualism written by Gerard Graff, is a short essay that is speaking on one of the most common, well known arguments, street-smart versus book smart. Graff himself believes that having street smarts is just as important as having book smarts. In his essay, Graff gives his opinion on school systems for overlooking some of the other students and their different sorts of street smarts. As an adolescent Graff lived in Chicago, he always felt as though his community was pressuring him.…

If there was a battle between street smarts and book smarts, who would win? Geeks or jocks? But the question is who is more intelligent? In the article, “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff , he argues that schools are not teaching students the right way of learning. He says that schools are to blame for being too broad with the courses that students are studying. Graff thinks book smarts are more knowledgeable and that street smarts are people who have situational awareness. His point of…

In Hidden intellectualism by Gerald Graff, Graff talks about the young person who is street smart but it's a shame that they don't apply it to their education, he goes onto question and ask is it the schools and colleges fault that they don't recognize these children and tap in and hone their street smarts into good academic work. We define intellectualism on how well you know Shakespeare and nuclear fission but we don't consider cars, video games, or TV among these things. He goes on to talk…

acquire good communication tools”. Anti- intellectual values will destroy America, as those who are intellectually advanced are ashamed and will not assist further progression of advances in America. Ending his argument with rhetorical questions, Leonid Fridman leaves the audience to reflect on their morals. To change the values of America, Fridman must influence the values of Americans. Fridman aims to change the thinking of Americans and fight the “anti-intellectual values that…