Summary Of America Needs Its Nerds

The article “America Needs its Nerds” by Leonid Fridman uses incredible literacy strategies to engage the reader of his arguments. Fridmans main argument was that we treat smart people terribly in these recent times while other countries that are advancing praise smarter kids instead of other abilities. He makes a tone and mood that are very felt throughout the reading from his passion. He uses amazing literacy strategies to show is point of view to the reader. He overall uses amazing strategies to prove his points and make his argument stronger Leonid Fridman writes about the disrespect and ridicules smart people get for how they live and how it greatly impacts our country's future. Smart people are bullied and then in a lot of cases thought

He wants us to see the grave future we are getting ourselves by not letting these kids be who they are meant to be as he questions in his writing, “How long can America remain a world-class power if we constantly emphasize social skills and physical prowess over academic achievement and intellectual ability?” Leonid gives his argument in a very passionate tone sounding like he truly cares about this subject. He stands unwavering with the nerds and geeks knowing that they’ve gone through so much just because of doing what they want and find interesting. He believes that it is society's fault that we’re not getting a better chance at advancing because they disrespect and bully nerds. There's a mood of defensiveness and dignity as he seems to protect and cherish the intelligent people because North American society won’t as shown in this sentence, "Even if we have the political will to spend substantially more money on education than we do now, do we think we can improve our schools if we deride our studious pupils and debase their impoverished teachers?” Dignity is a big factor in this whole argument as well because the only thing he wants from society here is to respect smart people more because they are creating the future