On a more personal level, I happen to agree with Graff’s sentiment. Granted I still don’t quite consider myself much of an intellectual, I do believe that I am slowly (and ever so surely) arriving at that heralded podium known as intellectualism. However my own laziness still tends to hold me back. I digress though. When I was growing up in my own small town, I too was presented with an interesting dichotomy; that being should I strive to be an exceptional student, or should I play the role of class jock/clown. This was really quite a struggle for a grade-schooler that carried into junior high. It was also a struggle that I may have not handled that well either.
In my defense, I quite effortlessly made above average grades. The problem though was not in necessarily making grades as much as the apparent work that went into it. If I made an A on a test then I would pose a rather cavalier attitude in regards to the matter, acting as if it was by mere good fortune that I came out with such a grade. To act like I had truly attempted at making that grade would have potentially been catastrophic to my reputation.
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