Gerald Graff Essay

the years in school is not necessarily a reflection of one person’s intelligence. In “Hidden Intelligence”, Gerald Graff argues for the merging of the “street smarts” students adequately into the classroom curriculum, stating that student’s interests are identified as anti-intellectual, and that the educational system ignores the potential that might emerge from their areas of interest. Graff also calls into question the legitimacy of the educational system that favors more notable literary…

The immediate and the most defiant tone that sticks out to me in Gerald Graff article “Hidden intellectualism” is the way he uses his emotions and and practical thinking about his personal situations to covey his thoughts and and create a source of imagery on how he wants his readers to feel about the arguments he addresses. In his article Gerald graft paints vivid and clear arguments to portray his feelings about how he feels about how schools and colleges might be at fault for missing the…

known as “Street Smarts”. In the essay “Hidden Intellectualism,” Gerald Graff puts his point that street smarts should not be taken lightly and should be valued equally as “Book Smarts”. The article also talks about how one can be prone to take on intellectual identities if encouraged to do so by first letting them work on…

In the essay “Hidden Intellectualism,” Gerald Graff argues intelligence is not black and white, and there can be different ways for it to be shown. Specifically, Graff believes that in academic settings students should be able to be given the chance to study subjects that interest them. As the author puts it, “But they would be more prone to take on intellectual identities if we encouraged them to do so at first on subjects that interest them rather than ones that interest us.” Although some…

situations. In contrast to such definition, two pieces of literature that have unique explanations are “Reading Rhetorically” by Rose and “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff. In their articles, both authors urge reconsideration of what is considered “intellectual or intelligent.” In the reading “Hidden Intellectualism”, Gerald Graff explains how being intelligent doesn’t just come from books and academic work. He begins by elaborating how people tend to make boundaries between being street…

Gerald Graff's work, Hidden Intellectualism, is a display of hidden intellectualism in everyday life. In other words, education does not always come from schooling but is also taught from the world around us on the smallest level. In the article, Graff draws attention to what the typical view of what intelligence is often considered to be and why this is wrong throughout several repeated forms. A key strength of this article is presented right away through the debut. Graff's eye-catching and…

Intellectualism", Gerald Graff, uses sports and his childhood to illustrate how street smart is much more far-reaching than book smart if not the same. "Who you lookin' at, smart ass? As a leather-jacketed youth once said to me as he relieved me of my pocket change along with my self-respect.", is possibly the start of how Graff started to view the importance of street smart and book smart ("Graff"). He brought the two smarts together hoping to use subjects to interest…

school be smart? Or are books the key to education? The misconceptions of society sees being smart is a person who went to school to learn a subject, or got a degree in a specific field. Others see book smarts as knowing your way through life. Gerald Graff argues in his essay, “Hidden Intellectualism,” that being street smart is better than being book smart. I agree and disagree with this because, being smart depends on where you grew up or your culture. I disagree with this because anyone can…

Intellectual Bilingual-Communication In “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff, he thinks streets smarts should be considered an intellectual attribute. Also, colleges and universities tend to pay close attention to all the information written in books and do not allow their students to develop those skills that can help them succeed in the future. Graff’s point is that college and school should consider students attributes and talents and not only to see all students’ interests through…

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…