anti-intellectualism essay

full of artificial context to brainwash students into thinking that school is the only place you can learn. Education can be taught by exploring your passion and interests even if it’s not seen as academically correct. In the article, “Hidden Intellectualism,” by Gerald Graff, he suggests that students should be able to “exploit students’ nonacademic interests, but to get them to see those interests through academic eyes.”(Gerald Graff, page 400). In contrast, Malcolm X in “A Homemade Education,”

School teachings are full of artificial context to brainwash students into thinking that school is the only place you can learn. In the essay, “Hidden Intellectualism,” by Gerald Graff, he suggests that students should be able to exploit students’ nonacademic interests, but to get them to see those interests through academic eyes.”(Gerald Graff, page 400). In contrast, Malcolm X in “A Homemade Education,” wants to spread awareness about black history through actual academic readings. Both Graff and

The context in which Tiempo de Silencio was published, as well as the setting and themes of the book seem to reflect the official censorship that existed in Spain at the time. However, if one reads the novel from a philosophical instead of sociological perspective then the influence of censorship could be viewed as secondary to the purpose and themes of the text. Luis Martín-Santos’ novel Tiempo de Silencio was written and published during the time of Franco’s regime, and because of this, as one

book smart can write and converse about subjects taught in school. On the other hand, people with “street smarts” aren’t seen as intellectuals because the subjects they are knowledgeable about are not traditional. In his essay called “Hidden Intellectualism,” Gerald Graff insists that schools and colleges are missing an opportunity to translate street smarts into academic work. Schools tend to believe that only certain topics are appropriate for an academic environment. While other topics may not

In “Hidden Intellectualism”, Gerald Graff argues that street smart kids can do better in school if teachers had gave them the opportunity to perform their intelligence on academic work. It will be helpful if school encouraged students to learn the subject they are interested in. Graff share his adolescent experience to support this argument. He was passionate about sport. Until entered college, he only read things about sports. This habit unwittingly developed his literacy, analyzing and debate skills

Hidden Intellectualism In the discussion of intellectualism, an argument is whether academic intelligence is more important than “street smarts”. The standard way of thinking about intellectualism is that the only way we can be successful is if we thrive in an academic setting. In the article Hidden Intellectualism, the author, Gerald Graff, counter argues that the way we have been taught and conditioned is not the only way to be intelligent. Gerald Graff grew up in the 1950’s, hooked on sports

In the book "Fahrenheit 451" their is a law against books. They believe that being that it is more important to know how to do stuff like being an athlete or a good worker, rather than being intellectual, and knowing how to constructively criticize and create. In fact "intellectual" is believed to be a cuss word in their society. As my personal opinion I think it is more important to have both rather than one alone. I believe this, because yes it is important to be able to do stuff athletically

In his essay “Hidden Intellectualism”, Gerald Graff makes a controversial claim regarding intellectualism itself. While we tend to think about intellectualism as being present in historically academic subjects, such as philosophy, the sciences, or poetry, Graff argues that everyday topics such as cars, sports, and fashion have the potential to be just as intellectual. He asserts that many schools have neglected to unlock this potential, and that they should harness it by incorporating seemingly unintellectual

In the essay “Hidden Intellectualism”, by Gerald Graff, Graff argues that academic schools and colleges miss the opportunity to see street smarts and only focus on academic smarts. He explains how street smarts overcome academic smarts because of how people and our culture thrive for sports and entertainment, such as movies, video games, and music they prefer it over academic subjects. As Graff grew up he realized that the sport world was more entertaining and compelling than academic work he did

faced with the issue of being accepted by two different set of school boys, the hoods and the well dress, clean cut boys. He learned through his own experiences that showed him that “street smarts” were a part of an intelligence. (Graff, "Hidden Intellectualism", 2017) Graff in this passage uses some credibility but is extremely bias in the way it is presented. He uses the text from George Orwell in saying that his passage about penny postage is more understandable to people in contrast to Shakespeare