Intellectualism

system to mean indoctrinate students into what the system believes to be “academic”. Gerald Graff’s essay “Hidden Intellectualism” argues that there is knowledge and intelligence beyond what the traditional education system is practicing. Graff contends that incorporating the interests of students into the lesson will help students think more effectively and logically. “Intellectualism” is seen by how well a student does in traditional subjects. Graff however argues that “Real intellectuals…

people are generally 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…

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…

scholarship as well, but he found out he had a heart condition and couldn’t play. Scouts saw Nathan and Lucas play in their high school games and they recruited them. Later on in the show, Nathan began to play for the NBA and Lucas became a high school basketball coach. Another way One Tree Hill displays a positive effect is scholarships. College is expensive and hard to get in to. With a scholarship, they can get into college for less money and play the sport the love for even longer. After…

Claudia Ng Professor Ann West English 93 August 31, 2015 My Hobby in his article "Hidden Intellectualism", Gerald Graff discusses how some students are impressively street smart but do poorly in academic settings. However, instead of downplaying their non-academic knowledge, Graff suggests that schools should actually encourage students to change their nonacademic interests into objects of academic study, inviting students to write about their interests in a reflective, analytical way.…

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 student’s interest? The education system is insufficient in finding ways to show how education is valuable to a person’s personal ambitions. Their criteria should be tailor to match the needs of their adherents. In an essay titled “Hidden Intellectualism”, Gerald Graff gives a compelling argument on how schools should capitalize off student’s street smarts to engage them intellectually. Graff states, “It is self defeating to decline to introduce any text or subject that figures to engage…

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…

The book Hidden Intellectualism by Gerald Graff helps us adapted to his assessments on the different direction that schools and colleges take to approach the way they teach literature. He completely disagrees that students with street smart are not being able to apply the knowledge and skill they need in schools and colleges, in addition, to the way he displays the indication that using dissimilar methods in schools and colleges will help allow students to flourish in their writing. The purpose…

The article Anti-intellectualism: We Hate the Smart Kids by Grant PenRad talks about how students in high school value the championship of a sport over the championship of academics. Penrod says, “The football players enjoyed the attentions of an enthralled school, complete with banners, assemblies, and even video announcements in their honor, a virtual barrage of praise and downright deification. As for the three champion academic teams, they received a combined total of around 10 minutes of…