Gerald Graff: An Analysis Of Gerald Graff's Hidden Intellectualism

In the text “Hidden Intellectualism”, Gerald Graff’s defined intellectualism as the knowledge that varied within different experiences not only academically but non-academically. In his definition Graff considered book-smarts and street-smarts as intellectual persons. Graff definition on intellectualism was based on his belief that people who develop another interests beside schools’ topics are also able to write and think critically, as an evidence he gave his personal experience on how his love for sport helped him to discusses other topics and become part of the community. Rose’s text support Graff’s saying by giving his mother’s brother example of how he developed his ability to think and become someone efficient for the company he used …show more content…
As he claims in is text “Until I entered college, I hated book and care only for sports” (265). He gave his personal experience on how his love for sport helped him to discusses other topics and become part of the community. For Graff “Sports after all was full of challenging, debates, problems for analysis, and intricate statistics that you care about, …” (267). Sports reading intellectually, and challenging writing enabled him to transform from being street smart to an intellectual. Topic not related to school sometime it leads you to a social world where you get to discuss with others, their different perspectives and thoughts. Rose’s text support Graff’s argument. For Rose, people who do not attend school are also able to develop other type of intelligences as he said “One of my mother’s brother Joe Meraglio, left school in the ninth grade to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad” (Rose, 277). Even though his mother’s brother decided to left school and focused in other area for make a leaving, Joe was able to “…became a consummate multi-tasker, evaluating a flurry of demands quickly, parceling out physical and mental resources, …”. He also “…learned more and more about the industry, the technological and social dynamics of the shop floor, the machinery and production process, …” and “In addition, Joe learned about budget and management” (Rose, 277). …show more content…
His definition was based on his belief that people who present interest in different topic not related to school are also able to demonstrate their intelligence, that not only people who has professional knowledge are able to be successful in life and that all type of intelligence counts. Furthermore, he defines intellectual two different people as he called them street-smart and book-smart. Graff and Roses, they both agree with this definition and they both present support to it. One more time Graff and Rose definition on intellectualism include street knowledge and so academically