Gerald Graff

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,” wants to spread awareness about black history through actual academic readings. Both Graff and Malcolm believe that passion plays a role in learning, however,  for Graff it's the teacher's job to use the students interests

students to push themselves instead of slacking off. It is easy to get more involved in a competitive atmosphere because some people like to be better than everyone else. And that’s okay. Being more involved brings me to another statement in which Graff says that sports debates and other

Brains in the Shade In the article “Hidden Intellectualism,” the author Gerald Graff analyzes the difference of being book smart and being street smart. It questions why being book smart is seen superior to being street smart. Gerald Graff compares book smart intellectuals and street smart intellectuals. He thinks that people who are street smart are people who are not given the chance to show that they actually are intelligent. Graff states that he used to consider himself street smart rather than book

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

In Gerald Graff's short essay, “Hidden Intellectualism,” he explains people are intelligent in their own unique way, but educators must help adolescents convey their intellects into a classroom setting. Graff targets students, teachers, and administration to educate them about a hidden intellectualism that can be found outside a classroom setting. Schools and colleges might be at fault for missing the opportunity to tap into such street smarts & channel them into good academic work; Gerald Graff

Hidden Intellectualism “Hidden Intellectualism,” an excerpt from They Say/I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing by Gerald Graff, explains the importance of having diverse intellectualism and helping the kids with street smart intellectualism turn it into academic growth. The author’s claim in this excerpt is that school and colleges are missing out on an opportunity of helping the street smart kids grow their intelligence into good academic work. The significance in the author’s claim

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 during school. Graff states, “Sports

whereas a dullard will find a way to drain the interest out of the richest subject.” (Page 1) In “Hidden Intellectualism” Gerald Graff explains the overwhelming importance for the “street smart” people and the pretentious intellectuals. In Hidden Intellectualism, Gerald Graff starts with the age-old contention of the distinction between "school smarts" and "street smarts." Graff clarifies that by and large, these book smarts can take different structures and stow away in what individuals call road

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

In the passage in The Norton’s Reader, the author Gerald Graff uses logic, emotion and credibility throughout his essay. However, there are some key passages where this concepts of logic, emotion, and credibility. In paragraph 5, Graff opens with his own experiences in school in the 1940s. He discussed how he only liked reading sports magazine and that he was often 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