as sports‚ video games or the Internet. What if these interests were brought into the classroom and taught? Gerald Graff‚ the author of “Hidden Intellectualism” argues that there is more than one way to measure intelligence. This essay significantly considers how Graff’s beliefs on “Hidden Intellectualism” can be related to today’s education system. While I somewhat agree with Graff I find it difficult to completely believe that children should be taught only of topics that interest them for
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Umair Zia Houghton English June 30th‚ 2013 Book Smart vs. Street Smart In the article‚ “Hidden Intellectualism‚” Gerald Graff discusses the topic of book smart versus street smart. Being street smart means having interest in other activities more than in school work‚ while being book smart is the complete opposite of that. Graff believes that having the personality of a street smart person can benefit society if one knows how to channel their potential correctly. He persuades his views
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How television is making people smarted. People all over the world turn on their television each night and watch a few moments to a few hours of television and it is hard to miss a reality show which on almost any channel. If they were to pause on one of these shows they might not know it but they would bettering themselves on a personal level. Based on the ideas of Steven Johnson the average person could learn a thing or two from reality TV. In his article called‚ “Watching TV Makes You Smarter”
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for famous magazines Vogue‚ Seventeen‚ and the New Yorker‚ and Gerald Gaff‚ professor of English and education at the University of Illinois at Chicago‚ discuss the ever-popular debate on modern technology and the role in plays in schools. Goldwasser and Graff’s articles‚ “What’s the Matter with Kids Today?” and “Hidden Intellectualism” approach the topic in a different sense. Goldwasser expresses her thoughts through technology and Graff expresses his mainly through sports‚ yet both authors discuss
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what is taught through experience. I feel like a mix of both would be the best combination for a student. Gerald Graff‚ author of “Hidden Intellectualism” in the book They Say‚ I Say explains in his writings that intellect does not only exist in the educated form of thinking. He explains that besides the traditional academic intellectualism there can be some forms of hidden intellectualism that does not come from “book smarts‚” or academics‚ but come from “street smarts” such as things learned
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misconceptions about the hidden skills people have and majors that people choose. In the first essay “The New Liberal Arts” by Sanford J Ungar‚ argues that a liberal education is not what students should look for. He found seven misconceptions and then argued against them. The next essay “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff‚ states the misconceptions of people that are called “nerds” or “smart” are the ones who strive for intellectualism. These misconceptions of education and intellectualism affects the society
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versus Book Smart In his article "Hidden Intellectualism‚" Gerald Graff criticizes those that do not put value into "street smarts." Graff says that knowledge goes far beyond academic learning and continues into our everyday living. He states‚ "The need to prove I was smart and the fear of a beating if I proved it too well." Meaning that if the subjects he enjoyed the most became his main interest he would soon have to face ridicule for wanting to be himself (Graff). Graff’s theory of street smarts
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"The Bystander" - Rosemary Dobson "The Bystander" describes the significance of the insignificant characters in paintings. The speaker in the poem is that figure painted behind/beside the subjects of artworks‚ where he/it speaks out of its existence to us: in the form of a wing‚ a squire‚ a distant figure or part of a crowd. This insignificant character reflects upon several scenes he/it has stood in‚ such as the two slaughter of Innocents (i.e. the murder of infants from both Old and New Testament
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critical to a person’s intellectualism. As per Graff’s paper‚ Hidden Intellectualism‚ he suggests that in extra to simply book smarts‚ understudies who have more road smarts have the capacity to amass their insight into book smarts also. He underpins this contention with his childhood encounters with unique hobbies in perusing games rather than excellent writing. He then infers that it is conceivable to channel exceptional hobbies from every person with "street smart" (Graff 244) into their academics
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Introduction Originating in the study of languages‚ structuralism has exerted a vast amount of influence in the social sciences especially in the work of Saussure‚ Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes. Although these theorists may disagree with the exact view of structuralism‚ there is‚ on the other hand‚ a broad consensus that a structuralist approach to the study of human society and culture involves the notion of wholes. The purpose of this essay will be to develop the points of structuralism and
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