In "Hidden Intellectualism," author and professor Gerald Graff describes his idea of ​​what book smarts and street smarts actually are. He details how new ideas can help teach and transform our education system into something great and that perhaps intelligent students could be the factor that is missing from traditional education that could make it great. Graff begins by talking about the education system and why it is flawed in many ways, but one in particular: today's schools neglect the intellectual potential of intelligent students and how, shaping lessons to work more readily with the way people actually they learn, we could transform ourselves into something that can compete with the world. In schools, students are forced to recite and remember boring and burdensome work to prepare them for the future and higher education. “We associate the cultured life, the life of the mind, too narrowly and exclusively with topics and texts that we consider intrinsically important and academic. We assume that it is possible to become intellectual about Plato, Shakespeare, the French Revolution, and nuclear fission, but not about cars, dating, fashion, sports, TV, or video games. (Graff, 198-199) In everyday life, students are able to learn and teach themselves something new every day. It is those students, the “extraordinarily “intelligent” but poor-in-school young people” (Graff, 198), who we are wiping out of education and forcing to seek life in places that are generally less successful than attending a college or a university. It was then that Graff shifted the focus of his essay to himself. It would have been easy to continue talking about the injustice that the educational system has created towards those who...... middle of paper......it is not possible to respond exhaustively to the fact that intelligence for street or book smarts is best. . Making every student satisfied and working without any interruption is a bit far-fetched idea, because not everyone will be happy with the changes and adjustments. But we can work toward a system that allows both sides of the education field to succeed, regardless of how they learn. By analyzing Graff's statement, it can be concluded that the way a student learns may need to be reevaluated and transformed into something new that can adapt and grow with each type of student in order to enrich the standard idea of ​​an education really for everyone. Works CitedWieder, Ben. “Thiel Fellowship pays $100,000 to 24 talented students not to attend college.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 25, 2011: 3. Online.Graff, Gerland. Hidden intellectualism. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. Print.