Why are street smart students considered anti-intellectual in academia? In the article "Hidden Intellectualism" by Gerald Graff, he explains the idea that street smart students are much smarter than book smart ones. He explains that a street-smart student will be able to solve a problem much faster than a reservation-smart student because of his or her previous experience. According to the author, the problems with considering street smarts as anti-intellectual are that they are actually much smarter at booking intelligent students, they do not offer equal opportunities, and schools and universities never test their minds for convince them to succeed in academic work. students are much smarter than book smart students because of their knowledge and experiences. The author states in the article "I believe that street smarts surpasses book smarts in our culture not because street smarts are not intellectual, as we generally assume, but because they satisfy an intellectual thirst more completely than school culture , which seems pale and unreal." meaning that street smart students are smarter than book smart students due to their large amount of information about many things and previous experiences. The author is right that smart students get more out of their mistakes and learn more from their previous experiences. According to the author, street smart students always try to learn from their mistakes while book smart students rely on books and information from studies. Book smart students never try to experience a problem situation, which gives them distorted information and they do not learn much, while street smart students experience a problem situation and learn much more than book smart students. Book smart students are also smart because they learn a lot of information from books and readings and also know how to use that information correctly to be successful in the academic area, but these students learn much less from their mistakes and previous experiences to be successful, compared to the road. intelligent students. Secondly, street smart students do not have equal opportunities in schools and universities to prove themselves. In the article, the author states that "In competitions, points were obtained not by arguing, but by displaying information or in-depth reading, weeding out grades or other forms of superiority," which explains that many street-smart students argue in academic competitions and they do not get enough points for their arguments to win a competition, where book-smart students only provide information from books and readings to win such competitions.