Hidden Intellectualism In Hidden Intellectualism, Gerald Graff introduces the reader to his article with the comment that street smart students are being labelled nonintellectual by colleges and schools professors since they do poorly in academic work and their interest is centered into sports, magazines, and video games; nonetheless, these nonintellectual students seem more intellectual than those called themselves intellectual. As a first argument, the author claims that being interested in sport and novel reading more than school work readings could be another form of being intellectual. As a personal example, Graff writes “Until I entered college, I hated books and cared only for sports” (265). Graff describes his own adolescence when he used to read any other print media but school books. In addition, the author …show more content…
To Illustrate this fact, Gerald Graff writes “I still recall endless, complicated debates in this period with my closest pals over who was the toughest guy in the school” (266). He encountered these types of debates since he had to prove that he was not only a smart book kid but also, he was able to argue, analyze evidences, make generalizations, make a counterargument, summarize, and give a comment of nonintellectual topics in the hoods. Also, street smarts go deeper searching for information that they use for debate. Graff writes “I believe that street smarts beat out book smarts in our culture not because street smarts are nonintellectual, as we generally suppose, but because they satisfy an intellectual thirst more thoroughly than school culture, which seen pale and unreal” (268). In other words, when a student, not interested in academic texts, is exposed to constants nonintellectual data, such as sport, he is likely to be immersed in a constant search for statistic, analysis, commentaries, and debates, a factor primarily driven by