The article Anti-intellectualism: We Hate the Smart Kids by Grant PenRad talks about how students in high school value the championship of a sport over the championship of academics. Penrod says, “The football players enjoyed the attentions of an enthralled school, complete with banners, assemblies, and even video announcements in their honor, a virtual barrage of praise and downright deification. As for the three champion academic teams, they received a combined total of around 10 minutes of recognition, tacked onto the beginning of a sports assembly.” Penrod's point of this example is to show how high schoolers value sports more then academics. He talks about the different stereotype such as geeks are nerds and others. He also talks about the heat for the nerds or how people hate on them because they're smart and because they want to take AP classes and they're excited about stuff like that.
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Penrod says, “The point, though, is that the image of intellectualism is disliked as anti-social, and the harms of even fallacious perception to this effect spread it to all of the Intelligentsia.” He then makes another point that modern celebrities and social media suggests that intellectualism has no ties to success and social legitimacy. To finish off his article he states, "Regardless of the cause of anti-intellectualism, the effects are clear and devastating; society looks down on those individuals who help it to progress, ostracizing it's best and brightest. Some may blame television or general societal degeneration for the fall of the educated, but at heart the most disturbing issue involved is the destruction of promising personalities; ignoring into a intellectuals both in school and later on in life crushes its
Penrod says, “The point, though, is that the image of intellectualism is disliked as anti-social, and the harms of even fallacious perception to this effect spread it to all of the Intelligentsia.” He then makes another point that modern celebrities and social media suggests that intellectualism has no ties to success and social legitimacy. To finish off his article he states, "Regardless of the cause of anti-intellectualism, the effects are clear and devastating; society looks down on those individuals who help it to progress, ostracizing it's best and brightest. Some may blame television or general societal degeneration for the fall of the educated, but at heart the most disturbing issue involved is the destruction of promising personalities; ignoring into a intellectuals both in school and later on in life crushes its