Blog #3

Close:
1) "His essay invites us to think about students' intellectual abilities that go overlooked by schools because they come in unlikely packages." Pg. 22
2) "What is not so widely noticed, however, is that these intellectual resources go unnoticed because they are tied to ostensibly anti-intellectual interests." Pg. 22
3) "My own working premise as a teacher is that inside every street-smart student (which is to say, every student) this is a latent intellectual trying to break out..." Pg. 23
4) "I wrote of my youthful inability to read with pleasure or comprehension and my alienation from the intellectual ways of talking that school and college rewarded." PG. 24
5) "Though I, too, thought I did not "dig the intellectual bit," I was unwittingly in training for it." Pg. 26
6) "Whereas schoolwork seemingly isolated you, you could talk sports with people you had never met." Pg. 28
7) "We agreed there was a problem when initiation, the critical term that motivates the unit, remains a teachers word that students are not even expected to use."
Critical:
1) I have felt like this in school before because my writing is expressed differently than my peers and it may make me look less intellectual.
2) This is also true because I have seen strict curriculum in school interfere with other things that I am intellectual about.
3) Seeing this in his article gives me hope for myself, I really need to find my breakout.
4) This point really connects to me because when I am reading sometimes I have a hard time comprehending.
5) I just thought this was a really interesting way to talk about the transition from the adolescent intellectual to an adult intellectual.
6) I agree that school work isolates me as a student. I think it refrains me from being able to let out my intellectual ability.
7) When I was reading this part of the passage I thought that the way that he used initiation made becoming intellectual seem so much more intimidating than I thought it really was.