Intellectualism

"Hidden intellectualism", written by Gerald Graff, was aimed towards an audience of people that want to understand the differences between book smarts and street smarts, and how streets smarts can be used within your educational path allowing the audience to either want to go about doing that by determining if the author gave good or bad advice through their experience; written in 2003. I would be one of those people that's the target audience due to my hidden intellectualism I have instilled…

and academically serious.” (Lines 3,4). Fridman continues to discuss the widespread of anti-intellectualism that takes place at all academic institutions including colleges and elementary schools. He utilizes numerous rhetorical techniques such as hyperbole, rhetorical question, and denotation and connotation to develop his argument that “America Needs Its Nerds” (Title) and it is time for anti-intellectualism to be stopped. “A geek, according to Webster’s New World Dictionary,…

Intellectualism in Society Imagine you are a young adult who has just graduated high school. You are ready to move out of your parents house, but there is only one problem, you were never taught how to pay taxes. While in high school you learned about the mitochondria being the powerhouse of the cell and how to find the function of x in an equation, you were not taught basic life skills. American education does not effectively help students learn and utilize skills that will affect their lives…

of the current curriculum in schools, we are teaching students based on intellectualism instead of the concepts outside a basic education. Students are led to believe that the education you receive in school is to prepare themselves and succeed in the modern-day workplace. Using the works of Gary Gutting, “What is college for”, and Gerald Graff, “Hidden Intellectualism”, both writings…

authors, Mike and Graff appearance how the intellectualism work in school is not either rational neither being developed accordingly. Suppose you were in school and as you spent many hours to studying about angles memorizing history, doing the math and writing these in class which can train you to success in your lifetime of education. In Rose’s article, he found the intelligence of blue-collar workers, in the meantime, Graff considered the “hidden” intellectualism interior topical collective…

The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich, Hidden Intellectualism by Gerald Graff, and Nuclear Waste by Richard A. Muller are all pieces of literature in the book They Say, I say by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. These pieces give readers an example of different types of college level writing samples with the purpose providing them with a source of influence to assist in further developing their own skills. Just by looking at the titles you can can tell these writings…

In the article “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff, he writes about how the American society views street smarts in the lines,” Nor do we consider one of the major reasons why schools and colleges overlook the intellectual potential of street smarts: the fact that we associate…

In his critical essay, “America Needs Its Nerds”, Leonid Fridman attacks the rampant anti-intellectualism in American pop culture through juxtaposition and rhetorical questions in order to reform the misdirected society into one that upholds “nerds” so that the country can be successful in its competition with foreign countries that already have that mindset. Furthermore, Fridman elaborates on the problem by demonstrating the derogative origin of “geek” and its unjust application to the…

We are really looking forward to tomorrow's discussion and are hoping it will clarify some of these points for us further - however, we have done a lot of thinkinng about these topics in the last few days and this is how we hope to steer the conversation. Firstly, our readings for this week were centered around intellectuals and universities. But what is an intellectual? We encountered several definitions from diverse sociological standpoints. We started with "those who create, generate, and…

In a 1990 article published by the New York Times, “America Needs Its Nerds” by Leonid Fridman, Fridman argues that people that are intellectually curious are degraded and disrespected in America. If we do not begin to prioritize intellectualism, America as a country will not be able to keep up with the rest of the world. In the first section of the article, Fridman establishes that the terminology people in America use to refer to the intellectually curious is derogatory. Fridman references…