In their essays “Hidden Intellectualism” and “The Liberal New Arts” author Unger and Graff both stress the importance of having a well rounded education. Unger urges Americans to strive to get Liberal arts educations where students are engaging in literature social sciences etc... , and leave alone Career Education, which is an education that is straight forward into a particular career. On the other hand Graff argues that being having the being smart academically is not enough itself but rather have street knowledge in which he calls “Street Smart”. Liberal arts “book smart” prepares people to be successful in the work environment, whereas “street smart” enables people to open and be socials with other, therefore having both of these aspects will make you a successful individual. Sanford J. Ungar argument on liberal arts is very important in that students should have a broad view of the world. This sheds light on author Sanford J. Ungar thoughts on the value of being well rounded person, not only in books but in addition practical intelligence “book smart”. Gerald Graff grew up in the streets of Chicago. In the 1950S this was a place where “being tough earned you a complete legitimacy”. (382) He felt the need to have a balance between “clean cut” (383) boys and working class hood, which he associated with daily in the playground. He felt “The need to jeopardize my respectable future and the need to impress the hoods”. (382) He felt as if he needed to prove that he was smart but also feared that he would be bullied. Graff and his friends would engage in debates on “who is the toughest guy in the school” (382) and if you were below average on toughness, you would settle for the next thing “which was being inarticulate” (382) which was the lack to express ideas clearly and effectively in speech. I found it very strange for the fact being inarticulate was considered a positive thing and somet