Summary Of Hidden Intellectualism And Blue Collar Brilliance

Gerald Graff begins with his argument in the difference between book smarts and street smarts. Graff demonstrates that knowledge does not only exist in a scholastic form of thinking, but also in the form of “street smarts.” However, Mike Rose challenges the idea of intelligence can be measured by the amount of educational profile a person has. Both authors claim to have similarities in slight variations, but they argued differently and proved their stances. In Hidden Intellectualism, Gerald Graff states, “sports world was more compelling than school because it was more intellectual than school, not less.” Graff uses his own experience from his childhood to best shape his argument. Summarizing his own anti-intellectualism experience more towards sports than an academic subject.

He mentions that just because certain jobs requires less education, does not make anyone less intelligent. “Intelligence is closely associated with formal education - the type of schooling a person has, how much and how long and most people seem to move comfortably from that notion of a belief that work requires less schooling requires less intelligence.” He points out about his mother's job as a waitress and his uncle's job are two examples where people with a lower level of education expanded their field of working and gained to be intelligent while