One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think.” Every student is quick to graduate college and earn a diploma that he or she does not realize the true value of education. It does not matter what one learns in college, as long as he or she applies what he or she learns and question ideas with intellectual approaches. Gerald Graff emphasizes in “Hidden Intellectualism” that "one of the major reasons why school and colleges overlook the intellectual potential of street smarts: the fact that we associate those street smarts with anti-intellectual concerns" (264). People relate education with how much the student excelled academically, rather than by how the student processes the information and applies it to his or her
One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think.” Every student is quick to graduate college and earn a diploma that he or she does not realize the true value of education. It does not matter what one learns in college, as long as he or she applies what he or she learns and question ideas with intellectual approaches. Gerald Graff emphasizes in “Hidden Intellectualism” that "one of the major reasons why school and colleges overlook the intellectual potential of street smarts: the fact that we associate those street smarts with anti-intellectual concerns" (264). People relate education with how much the student excelled academically, rather than by how the student processes the information and applies it to his or her