Hidden Intellectualism

" I offer my own adolescent experience as a case in point. Until I entered college, I hated books and cared only for sports. The only reading I cared to do or could do was sports magazines, on which I became hooked . . . .In short, I was your typical, teenage anti-intellectual—or so I believed for a long time. I have recently come to think, however, that my preference for sports was not anti-intellectualism so much as intellectualism by other means."

~Gerald Graff, a professor at the University of Illinois, excerpt from his essay "Hidden Intellectualism"