hidden intellectual summary

Hidden Intellectual Summary

Graff writes about channeling student’s hidden intellectual with street smarts in their academics. In his article he states that students have more intellectual besides school smarts. He also says that there are super intelligent people out there with only street smarts and they did horrible in school. In addition to that Gruff believes that our teachers should be teaching things that interests our students, encourage them to become more opinioned and more involved with their school work. Gruff implies that most people believe that they should worry about their school work more than tapping into our student’s street smart and instead of preparing them for the real world. I simply agree with Gruff on his theory on channeling the students street smarts through their academics will get them more involved. On page 22 Gruff explains that these intellectual resources go unnoticed because they are tied to anti- intellectual interests. Despite the students that do well with school they don’t have street smarts. So everything they teach in school to the students that are good at it are interested in learning about Plato, Shakespeare, the French revolution and nuclear fission, but they have no interest in cars, clothing fashions, sports and T.V (22). In addition to that he also states a question about how teachers can tease out the critical theory in student’s street smarts. (23). Well in my opinion it’s all about the curricular that were learning about and the activities that were doing classes. If it’s not something that interests us than us students won’t get into it and start to fall behind. On top of all that Gruff also questions why try to turn students into clones of academics and intellectuals (23). I agree with Gruff on his opinion when we saying that the worlds of students and teachers will continue to yawn (23). I agree with him because honestly teachers have no connection with the students when they teach. In all that without the connection between the students and the teachers, there’s no care in the world of the intellectual academics. In spite of all that Gruff still believes that until street smarts articulate (23) with school academics the students will still be uninvolved in school and be lacking in intellectual argumentation. Which he also implies that consumption generates youthful arguing and help others learn the use of argument to express and defend his or her interest. So yes students with street smarts tend to fall behind because there is no interest to them in school.