White Teeth

What is an Intellectual?

Joe Nieto

Seminar in Liberal Studies
Dr. Mark Soderstrom
October 13, 2010

What is an Intellectual? This seems equal a genuinely daunting question at least(prenominal) for me to answer. The reason for this is, I believe that every person you call for would sustain a different view of what an ingenious is, or should be. Growing up in an environment where there was very little push for education (Government Housing, The Projects and the poor surrounding areas) I felt that the intellectual was an enemy of the lower classes, of which I was a member. The reason I believed this way was that I associated education with the robust the privileged and the white race. I did non know at the time any Hispanics nor African Americans that were educated. I did not have any teachers in School who were other than white; notwithstanding my Spanish teacher was not of Latino origin only when was German and wheel spoke with a German accent when she spoke English. To me advanced education seemed out of reach both financially and physically. I have since changed my view about education on with who has a right to it. I have since found that I was misled by my own ignorance and the mentality that surrounded me at the time, which was superstar of not continuing your education but finding economic consumption and starting a family.




Although I feel that anyone can be an intellectual, even those who do not have formal education. A true intellectual is the person who not only educates himself or herself but uses that education as Said states in his founding In opposition rather than in accommodation, the challenge of the intellectual is to be found in dissent against the status quo on behalf of the underrepresented and disadvantaged.1
There are many people in this reality who are avid readers, people who can take in copious amounts of information. These people are self taught intellectuals who might not have had the opportunities to receive a formal education receivable to circumstances in their lives, but...If you want to get a panoptic essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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