Who Is The Best Place For Students Learn Knowledge And...

Nurture intellectual in college Through more and more famous drop-out students’ succeed stories, such as Bill Gates, David Geffen, Steve Jobs, are propagated, their similar experiences to drop out from colleges then successfully found their own business by their knowledges and intelligent seems giving a strong evidence in supporting the idea that colleges already become a place that probably not good to nurture intellectuals. I would argue that college is still the best place for students to learn knowledge and become intellectuals. I’m sure that the benefits of colleges such as providing the academic environment, communicating platform and academic support can prove my view. First of all, the colleges provides a unique academic†¦show more content†¦But obviously, sports as non-academic object in the academic world is seriously underestimated by Graff. Physiology, statistic, game theory and many other subjects are regarding to sports. Meanwhile, hundreds of aca demic papers analyzing sports have been published. Most these papers exactly are the evidences to introduce the college, it’s not a place where will concern about what your view is, but a place where will concern about how you tell your view. The second point that the college can contribute in nurture intellectuals is to construct a communicating platform. Professors, tutors and students in the college jointly weave an academic network, which can effectively provide ideas, knowledges, and any other academic information to any person staying in the network. As we all known, it’s difficult to do any research, even do any things without external helps. In Hidden Intellectualism, one of the reason for Graff claims that the street smarts for the pop culture beat out the book smarts is because the streets smarts can be widely discuss with any targets, which book smarts can’t. (Graff, 384). The strength of â€Å"street smart† that Graff claims is completely contained in the academic network of colleges. More accurately, the appearance of college in the ancient Athens exactly was the need for the intellectuals to have a place to communicate their knowledge and ideas. Today, more and more colleges are