Hidden Intellectualism By Gerald Graff In An Analytical Summary,

Student’s nameProfessor’s name Course titleDateHidden intellectualism by Gerald GraffHidden intellectualism or street smart refers to the intellectual potential that fails to meet the narrow standards of the conventional education system, leading to a group of smart academic failures. Contrary to the common misconception that intellectualism applies to knowledge particular to certain subjects as portrayed by the education system, intellectualism cuts across all important aspects of human life. Gerald Graff describes the intellectual life as the ability to “make an argument, weigh different kinds of evidences, move between particulars and generalizations, summarize the views of others and enter a conversation about ideas” (Graft 3). He, therefore, argues that street smart individuals do not lack the ability to contribute to academic work, but instead, schools and colleges create an intellectual barrier by selecting only a few subjects as academic.Human minds experience intellectual hunger which differs from one individual to the other. Street smart individuals select the line of knowledge that they find appealing and often coincides with the community’s intellectual hunger, while the conventional scholars focus on the less appealing type of information that the institutions requires them to learn. The interesting knowledge comprises of the common problems that affect them