Summary Of Book Smarts By Gerald Graff

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Lastly, an important contributor to both sides is that reducing college to the idea of inherent predisposition fails to account for the fact that college doubly has the potential to squeeze out “hidden intellectualism”, in those who would seem academically inept. Gerald Graff mentions the significance of converting specialized smarts (intelligence in a certain niche) into book smarts: “I think it was through debates over sports.that I first learned to form the arguments and analyses that I would later produce as a professional academic.” The importance of this story is that Graff found his eruditeness in a certain field (sports magazines) to be a driving factor of his success in developing palpable academic skills. Graff’s point here is that
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