In “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff, the author speaks about how schools should use students’ interests to develop their rhetorical and analytical skills. He spends a majority of his essay on telling his own experience of being sport loving and relating it to his anti-intellectual youth. He explains that through his love for sports, he developed rhetoric and began to analyze like an intellectual. Once he finishes his own story, he calls the schools to action advising them to not only allow
Contained within Gerald Graff’s, “Hidden Intellectualism,” are several eye opening ideas. Graff main point in his essay, is that non-intellectual topics can be written or talked about in an academic way. Graff uses his past stating that he has street smarts, and that it was a form knowledge. In a way, he negatively scrutinizes the public education for overlooking the intellect of those who aren 't skilled academically. One thing that I believe is very fundamental is that he says, “They would be more
In Gerald Graff’s “Hidden Intellectualism,” he reports that street-wise students are more intellectual of becoming book-wise students. Graff argues on how schools and colleges are at fault when students fail on their academics. He worships the love of sports and conveys that sports brings out argumental intellectual debates. He elaborates on his past experiences on how he withheld his intellectualism from his peers because he was afraid of being beaten down. He emphasizes that students are intelligent