No Shakespeare or Plato, I want Spots Illustrated.

Gerald Graff the writer of "Hidden Intellectualism," writes about the comparison between people who do well in school and people who have good "street smarts." Throughout the article the author gives pros and cons of both kinds of intellectualism and eventually states that street smarts out weigh the book smarts because "they satisfy an intellectual thirst more thoroughly than school culture..." Graff continues to talk about how a person who has street smarts with the interest in cars will write the same type of paper about Plato and Shakespeare because he doesn't have the book smarts to make it more intellectual. Ned Laff put it this way, "is not simply to exploit students' nonacademic interests, but to get them to see those interests through academic eyes." It's like saying you need two wheels to ride a bike.