Hidden Intellectualism In his article "Hidden Intellectualism‚" Gerald Graff criticizes those that do not put value into "street smarts." Graff insists that knowledge goes far beyond academic learning and continues into the everyday world. As a child‚ Graff always looked for a happy medium between brawn and brain. As Graff describes‚ he felt "the need to prove I was smart and the fear of a beating if I proved it too well." In a culture that values sports and entertainment‚ Gerald knew he would
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Aiza Daud Lucinda Channon English 1301 5 September 2011 Interest Initiates Learning In Gerald Graff’s essay‚ Hidden Intellectualism‚ one is exposed to the author’s view of different means of intellectualism. Graff gives the reader an uncommon perception of what it means to be an intellectual. He expresses his views by stating that a person can be an intellectual in fields that have nothing to do with academia‚ such as street smarts or particular interests. He also states that if you incorporate
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In his essay "Hidden Intellectualism‚" Gerald Graff argues that intellectualism is not something that can only be archived through proper education like school or college‚ but with subjects that people consider non academics as sports and cars. The writer considers "street smart" to those people who learn things outside of an academic environment‚ for example in the streets of their neighborhood. The writer argues that educators should let students decide on the subject that they are more interested
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In his article Gerald Graff (2001) claims that by connecting non-academic interests to academic study students can become more intellectual and willing to involve themselves in intellectual study. While he doesn’t deny that academic subjects are important he believes suggesting students to analyze the subjects they enjoy they’ll gain more incentive to go into analytical thinking more often. “Students do need to read models of intellectually challenging writing […] if they are to become intellectuals
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audience I want to appeal are people who do not know who is Gerald Graff and are not familiar with his Intellectualism essay. B.) How you like the readers describe the personality you present? The personality I want to convey in this summary is someone who has read Graff’s essay and is able to comprehend what he is trying to say. C.) What questions does your paper answer? Some of the questions I answer in my summary are who is Gerald Graff‚ How he came to philosophy his theory or thought of street
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Former Modern Language Association president‚ Gerald Graff argues that if a student’s individual interests are incorporated into learning techniques‚ they will gain more academically. In his essay “Hidden Intellectualism” published in 2003‚ he suggests having interests in things besides standard common core curriculum is not anti-intellectualism. People gravitate towards certain interests because it perhaps requires more of their intellect in a way they can easily comprehend and engage. Furthermore
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stressing on academic knowledge. Gerald Graff‚ however‚ expresses his different perspective in his article‚ Hidden Intellectualism. By looking back at his childhood‚ he realizes that his non-academic interest‚ which is reading sports magazines‚ is the actual foundation to his current social position as a professor and a writer. Similarly to Graff with his interest in sports magazines‚ the first batch of brownies that I made was the discovery of my hidden intellectualism
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Serrano‚ Edric “HIDDEN INTELLECTUALISM” Reading Response Journal In the article “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff‚ The Author is telling us that knowledge can be seen not only from academic thinking but also in the form of “street smarts”. Graff explains that we know some “impressively street smarts” but does not do well in school‚ but Graff argues that “street smarts” are just as important as “book smarts”. Many people think that it is such a waste‚ that “street smarts” should be taking
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of how book smart someone is. Book smart relates to how much information about math‚ science‚ and english a person knows. In Hidden Intellectualism‚ Graff brings up the idea that intelligence isn’t all about a scholarly form of thinking. “Everyone knows some young person who is impressively “street smart” but does poorly in school” is the first line of Graff’s essay (Graff 787). Nowadays‚ it is popular for a person to have the experience and knowledge for an everyday environment but lack knowledge
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According to Gerald Graff’s essay‚ Hidden Intellectualism‚ street smart students are often thought of as anti-intellectuals because of educators limited and narrow views that intellectualism is only associated with book smarts instead of realizing that students can develop their intellectual and academic way of thinking through non-traditional subjects that interest them. Graff conveys that by making students non-academic interests the focus can attract and motivate them to learn but acknowledges
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