Anti-intellectualism

opposing teams in the realm of sports to the ever-growing conflict found in the world of politics, the nation is falling further apart. However, at what cost? Due to the GOP's long-standing need to produce the perception of the common-man, anti-intellectualism has risen amongst the red party and in turn created an estrangement in current political culture. However, such result isn't just one of Trump and his "Make America Great Again" army.…

Intellectualism vs. Anti-intellectualism: Hindrance to Equality. The root of racism generated a profound partition among American society that required generational burden to undo its outcome. In the 1960s, when O’Connor published her short story, Everything that Rises Must Converge, there was a social commentary in the Southern about the civil right movement. At the time, there was a division of standpoint amongst white Americans towards the movement based on the dichotomy of…

In the controversial essay, which was first published in the November 1964 issue of Harper’s Magazine, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” Richard Hofstadter argues how the prevalence of paranoia in American politics has dominated the politics in the country. Hofstadter asserts American politics has been governed by paranoia since the creation of the United States, and it has manifested itself into the minds of both average Americans and intellectuals. He contends that paranoia has played…

Before attending Heidelberg University all first-year students were asked to complete a self-assessment, called The College Student Inventory (CSI). The CSI contains approximately 100 questions that are based on one’s academic motivation, coping skills, and support services. The reason why first-year needs to answer this online survey is because so one can recognize their strengths and weaknesses academically, in coping strategies, and in support services. After answering those questions The CSI…

Anyone can be intellectual? At any educational level, different groups and types of students exist. Intellectualism can be approached and understood in many forms, varying from regular study works, vast literature, and knowledge provided at educational institutions. Often believed that it was only practiced by selected few persons, such as scholars with great academic “intelligence” but as we progress in society, many of the social constructs built over the years, have turned a whole…

Smart. Maybe, they have heard the words intellectualism and practicalism, but never pay attention to them or noticed that there are other ways to call them. Perhaps, all what they know of these terms is that they can be used to tag people. In this essay, we are going to discover how important is to know their meaning, relation, advantages and disadvantages in order to know how can they affect human being perspectives. Everybody has different forms of intellectualism and some of them have not…

In the article, “Hidden Intellectualism” Graff argues that streets smarts are being not utilized enough in students’ academic work. He incorporates several examples that support his claim including how sports taught him how to effectively write an argument. Graff also uses an eye-catching introduction with an intriguing example of Michael Warner’s transformation and intellectualism as the main theme. Overall Graff gives his audience a perfect template for argumentative writing with balance,…

the groundwork to becoming successful, but the way success is developed depends on street smarts. In his essay “Hidden Intellectualism,” Gerald Graff describes that students 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” (265). He implies that this form of intellectualism is covered in under the mask of typical discussions about fashion, sports, pop-stars and many other aspects.…

In this essay I will be summarizing the article “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff. He argues that not only are book smarts good to have but also street smarts. He touches on how he thinks schools systems have killed our interest and passion of being intellectuals? And what subjects are better to write about, sports, cars, fashion, Plato and Shakespeare? In the article the author states “Everyone knows some young person who is impressively “street smart” but does poorly in school” (Graff…

The first sentence of Everybody Is Ignorant, Only on Different Subjects got me hooked as soon as I read it. The third word was a word that I was not familiar of. I searched it up and it means doing something without permission. This was a brilliant idea is incorporate this word in this sentence because it made me become very curious. Eliot A. Butler is right though. Who in the world has permission to discuss the educated person. Only people that come into mind is a schologist. I learned that…