Intellectualism

sports are a national discussion, a public argument that transcends the individual and allows for any strangers to be part of something bigger (384). It is a compelling argument that logically demonstrates how sports can satisfy a thirst for intellectualism and community, while inspiring feelings of desire or pride to be part of something…

Hide & Seek with Intellectualism Life is full of advantages and disadvantages but it's mainly determined depending on your background. In society now, you can either be book smart or street smart. People have one or many types of intellectual knowledge on a topic and/or subject that's interesting to them, driving them to intake and learn as much information as possible. However, at the end of the day, those people discovering their interests often use it to benefit themselves, motivate and…

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…

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 learn the information students learn at…

Gerald Graff’s Project in Hidden Intellectualism Name Institution Gerald Graff’s Project in Hidden Intellectualism In his article Hidden Intellectualism, Gerald Graff attests that intellect does not exist only in the scholarly form of thinking. Instead, he argues that intellect can also take the form of “street smarts”. In his opinion, this kind of intellectualism is obscured under the mask of normal discussions about sports, soap operas, and fashion, among others. Most students harbor…

If there was a battle between street smarts and book smarts, who would win? Geeks or jocks? But the question is who is more intelligent? In the article, “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff , he argues that schools are not teaching students the right way of learning. He says that schools are to blame for being too broad with the courses that students are studying. Graff thinks book smarts are more knowledgeable and that street smarts are people who have situational awareness. His point of…

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 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.…

Grant Penrod’s “Anti-Intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids”, makes the argument that academic achievement should be rewarded just as much as athletic achievement. He continues with the fact that today’s society tends to praise non-intellectuals, such as famous celebrities and athletics, while the intellectually skilled individuals get left no recognition for their accomplishments. I agree with Penrod that there is a hatred and inattention in society for those who are smarter than others,…

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…