This strategy was extremely useful for my response to “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff. Reading the article and capturing its main idea helped me respond to Graff’s claims. Like I did in the summary paper, I reviewed the whole piece swiftly, yet carefully, by examining each paragraph to comprehend Graff’s arguments more clearly. Also, searching for interesting quotes allowed me to explain what I agree and disagree with. For example, I agreed with Graff’s claim that schools and colleges…
A Great Dislike for Intellectuals “[I]ntellectuals constantly see their efforts trivialized in the rush to lavish compliments elsewhere,” (759). This is a statement from Grant Penrod’s article, Anti-Intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids, that creates a strong inquiry as to why the problem occurs. His article presents an in-depth exploration of the reasons. Penrod starts off the article by stating that an Arizona high school football team was praised for their championship, but that the…
In the excerpt “Hidden Intellectualism” Gerald Graff, professor of English and education at the University of Illinois in Chicago, aims to define the way in which he believes schools are failing…
they want and use that information however they please. Conversely others believe the freedom to make fun of the intelligent and face little backlash is what they should pursue in their quest for the American Dream. In Gerald Graff’s “Hidden Intellectualism” he speaks of how when he was a child, he was worried to ever show how smart he was in fear that the neighborhood kids would beat him up. Because of this he put up a facade that made him look just like the brutish children that he wanted to…
It doesn’t help to be oversensitive, but sometimes it’s hard to avoid it. “Literary intellectuals love to sneer at polls and surveys,” writes Dominic Sandbrook in his determinedly informative and frequently entertaining attempt to analyse what makes British culture tick, “but historians cannot afford to do so.” The survey being putatively sneered at reveals the immense popularity of The Lord of the Rings; presumably the implications of that popularity, rather than the fact of it, which must…
not teach students everything in schools that they should. With the ever changing world that we live in, author Gerald Graff writes in his article 'Hidden Intellectualism ' that we need to think more about what happens in the future in our school, so we need to teach more street smarts in our schools. In Gerald Graff’s Hidden Intellectualism he talks about why we should recognise book smarts and street smarts equally in schools and in society. Graff talks about how when was a kid and how he…
Nerds need love too In “Anti-intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids,” Grant Penrod believes that high schools do not give the same recognition to the academic clubs and intellectual students then the sports teams. He thinks this because at a high school in Arizona a football team won a state title and was recognized through state banners, assemblies, and a video announcement in their honor. While the Science Bowl Team, Speech and Debate team, and the Academic Decathlon team also…
compared to a student who comes from a higher class. In Blue – Collar Brilliance written by Rose and Hidden Intellectualism written by Graff, both authors use personal experience to contend how what social…
Fears of how censorship and anti-intellectualism are affecting the world. The year is 2023, and there are no longer mass book burnings, but Bradbury’s concerns are still prominent today. Anti-intellectualism controls much of the censorship in society, redacting our history, culture, and diversity. Redactions motivated by paranoia that are left unchecked can be our ruin, which will create a very real dystopia within this world. Fear stemming from anti-intellectualism destroys our individuality…
around the world to study in different countries to experience different culture and life styles. But, in this journey there are lot of obstacles or anti-intellectualism which constrain their full capacity or freedom and set boundaries for them. Some of these are difference in education system, different language and also religion. Anti-intellectualism is not the problem itself like culture change, language or different educational but the extra effort one has to put to succeed because of the…