Gerald Graff Essay

determined to force Graff into liking books and reading and writing that Graff says, “I recall his once confining me to my room until I finished a book on the voyages of Magellan, but try as I might, I could do no better than stare bleakly at the pages” (23). Graff did not begin to find himself liking reading and writing until he discovered critical thinking practices of reading and writing. Despite his father’s efforts, Graff had to find this for himself; he had to make himself. Once Graff…

plan on working at a job for the rest of your life? According to Mike Ross in Blue Colored Brilliance Rose’s mother was only a waitress and didn’t go to college. He believes that she still acquired knowledge through brains and physically. Whereas Gerald Graff in Hidden Intellectualism believes that “street smarts” can turn into successful academic people. In Graff’s story he does a great way of listing the ideas to support how his mother still learned intellectual ideas by not going to college.…

In the article, “Hidden Intellectualism,” Gerald Graff argued that schools ignore street smarts. He said that book smarts do not have non-academic interests. He used his background with street smarts to support his argument by explaining why sports was his favorite interest instead of reading academic books. Graff’s argument is reasonable because of his tone, his personal experience, and his view that schools overlook non-academic intellectualism. Graff developed a stronger tone when he was in…

Graff stresses that students with street smarts have the ability to think critically about the environment around them and apply that which they’ve learned to their advantage. According to Graff, students should only be expected to put their effort into subjects that they find themselves interested in. Each of these essays emphasized the importance of everyone receiving some form of education greater than high school. As stated by Addison and Graff, I believe hard work comes…

What if people were defined by their intellectual ability and not by their educational creditionals or if people where taught how to be intellectual along with obtaining a formal education? Well in the articles, “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff and “Blue Collar Brilliance” by Mike Rose both illustrates the term being intellectual is beyond the norm of school textbook knowledge. They believes that there are many forms of intelligence in which it can be capitalize and utilize as a life…

The gap between classes should be recognized as a problem birthed by mankind, and be dealt with by society. Great minds, intellectuals like Lynda Barry or Gerald Graff could have been lost to obscurity if it had not been for their desire for success. The correct environment for growth and self realization should be put forth so that our urban children can succeed and be in reach of all programs and extracurricular…

The introduction of “They Say/ I Say” written by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkensein suggested the usage of templates to properly structure a paper to succeed. They even threw the idea of creating original templates once one is confident enough. They stressed the importance of templates, as it sets a routine that can transform writing as an effortless task. To quote, they said,” accomplished writers routinely rely on a stock of established moves that are crucial for communicating sophisticated…

People say that book smarts are all you need to get by in life, but what if your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere? People with just book smarts would just break down, some might even call for help, but what if help never arrives? People with some street smarts would be able to fix their problem and not even need to panic in a situation where their car breaks down because they know what to do. If someone has never been in a situation that required something not taught in school, would…

possible range of disciplines” (Ungar 229). Ungar does not state that he believes students should be able to learn about more personal subject matter like Graff does, but with this quote he shows that liberal arts degrees cover a much wider array of topics then a career education ever could. Although Ungar does not make the exact same claims as Graff does both of their claims have the same main underlying principal. That the modern education system needs to change and they both propose two…

ever been the cradle of American liberties, if not the largest component to a free minded and intelligent community. It is the basis of fostering our strong federal democratic republic. However, our education system has been slowly misconstrued. Gerald Graff in his piece “Other Voices, Other Rooms” shows the rather consistent agenda and bias many teachers and professors let unknowingly into their classroom. James Loewen in his book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History…