Leonid Fridman's America Needs Its Nerds

Growing up in the late twentieth and early twenty first century athletes are recognized more and treated better than someone who is just an ordinary student or a person who is considered a “smart kid,” or “nerd.” Just like Leonid Fridman states in “America Needs its Nerds,” “Nerds are ostracized while athletes are idolized.” (Fridman, P. 256) Fridman states that he was what is now considered a nerd
Media rarely reports on the person who made a cure for a medical condition, someone who starts a new business or enterprise or build ground breaking technology. Most everyone only get the inside scoop from the news reporters about athletes making an amazing last minute play of the game to score and win either the world series or the super bowl. From high school experiences being an athlete I was treated better and got away with a lot more
If parents encouraged studying or getting a great grade on children’s upcoming test maybe kids would not be so afraid to be the smart kid in the class and get better grades on their exams. Passing with good grades are going to get you further in life than being an athlete. Everything comes to an end sometime but a career with an education is going to last longer than playing a sport until you cannot any longer. Summing up Fridman, he says that, we have to get intellectuals from abroad. This is a problem, why are we getting citizens from different countries? We should not have to import people to better our country and teach people how things are done.
When going to college these days’ students who are athletes are the big dogs at schools instead of the ones who are academically inclined. Back a few decades’ scholarships were academic not for athletics. More and more people are getting scholarships for being an athlete than they are for having