Gerald Graff Hidden Intellectualism

Hidden Intellectualism Growing up where I was raised street smart was having the experience and knowledge necessary to deal with the potential difficulties or dangers of life in an urban environment. Like you know people actions and how to read body language and get the sense something isn’t right here. It even can be starting your own busy be and entrepreneur. If you were book smart you’ll get call a nerd and picked on in rough area of the city. I saw some of my peers try to dumb down the way they would talk when they come down to the park to play basketball because not too many people in the area had the vocabulary they had. The way Gerald Graff is putting it in a different twist to street smart. He’s putting it in a way of words where
young people aren’t really entertain by what the school system is teaching so they really don’t bother to follow with the studies and they’re called intellectual because of paying more attention something that catch their interest. I deal with the same and believe we all have. Majority of use always ask the teacher “when are we ever going to use this in life”, the answer was never it if doesn’t concern with what your profession is. Then we get to college and have to take the real classes to get is prepared for what we want to become and grabs our interest. His argument was rightful I agreed with it because I totally agree with what was said about sports being his intellectual in life because I play football and was always focused on practice that day or game that day then my school work. I’ll be reading about the team I’ll be playing against then reading a story I have a presentation on or essay. Like before I did this I was watching a football game procrastinating on doing my work. It’s just personal experience.