While reading Gerald Graff’s essay, “Hidden Intellectualism”, Graff claims that there are many people in which knows of someone who tends to be vernacular to the point where they are considered to be “street smart”. Graff exposes in his essay that intellect goes beyond the academia and scholarly form of thinking, that knowledge can also take the form within what Graff considers “street smarts”. Graff then goes on to argue that schools should take these “street smarts” and “channel them into good academic work”.
