Response: Hidden Intelectualism

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Gerald Graff in his article “Hidden Intellectualism” criticizes the way schools put the academic learning and how they do not value the “street smarts”. He insists that knowledge goes far more ahead from what you learn on school. To support his argument, he use his own experiences in his childhood and explain how his disinterest in the traditional way of learning was and then elaborates his loves on sports and how he learned to argument about the stuff he loved and had interest in without knowing he was doing it. Graff then insist the reader to take subject they have interest in and see them with “academic eyes” transforming one world into the other with analysis and debates.

I understand what Graff is trying to state and that we need to value our street smarts. In a sort of way put things that you have interest in academic views and if you do you will do a great work. One example is when in high school a teacher told us to write about something we had interest in and do an oral report about it. I wrote and talked about my passion in music and I felted like that was the best work I have ever done. But never the less academics stuff don’t work that way, Graff minimizes the importance of grades and they classified us on the academics grades we gain, and if you have good ones you can get to a good university and then to a good job. In the best situation you have the best from both worlds, good academic grades and it interest you. The thing is we need to learn how to study the thing we want but in the same time learn about other things with a little or the same passion as you do with the thing you love.=


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