Hidden Intellectualism By Gerald Graff: Book Review

The book Hidden Intellectualism by Gerald Graff helps us adapted to his assessments on the different direction that schools and colleges take to approach the way they teach literature. He completely disagrees that students with street smart are not being able to apply the knowledge and skill they need in schools and colleges, in addition, to the way he displays the indication that using dissimilar methods in schools and colleges will help allow students to flourish in their writing. The purpose of his book is to inform us on how street smarts should never be overlooked because of all the many cases they can offer more life skills than the education that is being provided in our schools. Graff recommends that by schools and colleges allowing …show more content…
This demonstrates, how Graff likely wrote this in a response to his adolescence days as a young child and the struggles he faced growing up thinking he was anti-intellectual, for the simple fact that his skill for writing were not shining through the topics that he was expected to write about in schools or colleges. Albert Einstein once said everyone is a genius, but if you were to judge someone like Stephen Hawking by his ability not to walk or climb a tree he would have believed his whole life he was stupid. He has won some of the most notable awards for achievements in his life. Today’s modern day schooling has many children feeling like they never going to find their true gift thinking that they are stupid and believing that they are useless. Schools and colleges sometimes kill a person’s creativity and individuality and being intellectually abusive, School are ancient institutions that use the same patterns and methods of teaching, which is transcending children’s individuality and intentions by building more rules for which to governs their behavior. School have not change in over a century their criteria and teaching is still the same. They are still using the same old books and policies while times are changing schools and college are still stuck in the past using the same old