To be intelligent means to be able to apply what we learned in school and use what we learned in our everyday life to achieve a goals that is sit or one that we are accomplishing without knowing. Many people think that a person is intelligent because they went to a university, got a degree, and have a good paying job, so they must be smart and know everything however thats not always true. If we would ask a teacher or professor the chances of them knowing how to fix a car are slim. So why do we think teachers are so intelligent? We think teachers are intelligent because they know everything about their subjects, know how to teach it and know how to apply their knowledge to their everyday lives. People can achieve intelligent by learning or by following their passion in whatever they love. If someone loves fixing cars there is a chance he will become a mechanic, so he will be intelligent in that careers. That is how someone becomes intelligent because they learned everything they can about their profession in book or by what they learn on the streets. To become a intelligent person is important in society because that sets a standard for us and we try to learn everything we can to be the best in our jobs and careers, so we can be the best in our field. In “ Blue Collar Brilliance” Mike Rose argues that intelligences can’t be measured by the education we received in school but how we learn them in our everyday lives. He talks about his life growing up and watching his mother waitressing at a restaurant. He described her orders perfectly by who got what, how long each dish takes to make, and how she could read her customers. He also talks about his uncles working at the General Motors factory and showed the amount of intelligence that was need to work at the factory. Rose goes on talking about the different types of blue-collar and how he came up with the idea that a person has skills that takes a lot of mind power to achieve. Why does our society think people who have blue-collared jobs don't need intelligent to work there job? Thats a lie according to Rose: Though many kinds of physical work don’t require a high literacy level, more reading occurs in the blue-collar workplace than is generally thought, from manuals and catalogues to work orders and invoices, to lists, labels,and forms.
Does the amount of schooling measure a person’s intelligence level? The essay “Blue Collar Brilliance” written by Mike Rose, argue that the intelligent a person has should not be measure under the amount of schooling, using the example of his uncle, who did not get a formal education, become the head of general motor. As for this, Rose suggest that education should be taken as priority. I agree with Rose point of view because the one who get formal education do not symbolize success. In older generation, many people could not afford the tuition, however they can also succeed. In the other word, having formal education does not grantee us a successful future.
A college Degree used to be an extraordinary accolade but now its just another thing that we need in order to be successful, at this points its nothing more than a paperweight to some. Mike Rose states, “Intelligence is closely associated with formal education—the type of schooling a person has, how much and how long—and most people seem to move comfortably from that notion to a belief that work requiring less schooling requires less intelligence” (Mike Rose 276). In other words the author of Blue-Collar Brilliance, Mike Rose, believes that blue-collar jobs require intelligence as well. I agree that those who work blue-collar jobs need to be intelligent, a point that needs emphasizing since so many people believe that those who work blue-collar jobs aren't intelligent and that why they have them. Although I also believe that
... to the educated mechanic or even the intelligent laborer it is not so when applied to the mentally sluggish". Thus, one can safely assume that there was little respect afforded to the worker in such a scientifically managed factory. Not only were the immigrants thought of as unintelligent, but there was also little value placed upon the individual experience that each might have brought to the task.
In the article, “The Blue Collar Brilliance”, Mike Rose communicates to the reader the idea that intelligence should not be dignified by how long you were in school. He also claims blue collar professions require more mental power than just physically doing a job and that we can’t limit ourselves to certain methods of learning. Rose supports this proposition by explaining how his mother and uncle learned from experience and still found prosperity in their life.
Mike Rose sets the tone for his argument in this sentence alone. In his article Blue Collar Brilliance, he describes how his mother and other family members would be stereotyped as working “blue-collar” jobs but excellently proves that they in fact do more than what meets the eye. I can attest to doing some of these ignorant assumptions with a lot of various occupations. However, the more I look back at my personal work experiences, some of my most challenging jobs could be classified as only doing only one to two mundane tasks, but in reality are much more complex than that. Case in point, my job as a store associate at The Cookie Store. Since I was only a store associate, people often think I only baked the desserts, ran the cash register and left. In truth, I had numerous managerial responsibilities. I was responsible for cleaning the store up to FDA standards, counting the cash register every night, calculating the daily bank deposits, as well as dealing with the psychological needs such as Mike Rose’s mother did. In retrospect, white-collar jobs can involve physical work too. When I was a dressing room attendant at Spirit Halloween, I was mainly responsible for putting costumes and other merchandise back on the shelves and
One needs a mixture of different types, like analytical (crystallized) intelligence, fluid intelligence, AND practical intelligence, which is knowing how to argue, read situations, convince, people, etc. In the third and fourth chapters of Outliers, a book written by Malcolm Gladwell, Gladwell explains it very well. He takes two people with extremely high IQs: Chris Langan and Robert Oppenheimer. Throughout the chapter he compares the two men’s stories, and shows how although Langan had just as high of an IQ as Oppenheimer, he was unsuccessful in life. He hasn’t made any amazing new discoveries, or created something wonderful, he dropped out of college. Oppenheimer on the other hand helped design the first atomic bomb. In the chapter, Gladwell points out what Oppenheimer had that Langan didn’t: practical intelligence, the ability to argue, reason, and convince people of something. For instance, Oppenheimer had no consequences after he tried to kill his tutor in graduate school, Langan could hardly talk to his professors at college. Gladwell shows another example in the previous chapter, when he compares the answers of two students on a test. The test asked them to come up with as many uses for a blanket as possible. One student came up with nearly a dozen hilarious answers, whereas another student only came up with about three obvious ones. The first student did much better on that test and would probably do better in a real life situation, since he was more creative. However, the first student had a lower IQ than the second student. Normally one would expect the second student to do better in everyday life, although that wouldn’t be the case. Those two examples and many, many others help show that although having a high IQ score is certainly helpful, it’s not the most important thing to one’s success and
The standard way of thinking about knowledge in general, is that it is based solely on IQ scores, academic grades, and the amount of education received. Through this cultural belief, intelligence and formal education—and in that, professions that require post-secondary schooling—go hand-in-hand. However, this school of thought also seems to dictate the notion that “work requiring less schooling requires less intelligence.” The scholar, Mike Rose, makes point on this in his 2009 article, Blue-Collar Brilliance, where he asserts his position in contrast to these stereotypical views, arguing that working class occupations actually involve a lot more intellect than given credit. As Rose himself put it: “Although we rightly acknowledge…the play of mind in white-collar and professional work, we diminish or erase it in…physical and service work”. In comparison, the late novelist David Foster Wallace, would too probably contend against such a prejudiced notion, though under a different circu...
However, in the restaurant I currently work at and have been working at going on six years, I work with handful of college graduates. These college graduates who have a diploma at home hanging on their wall still choose to work as blue-collar status. The reason being that there are not many other options of employment that you can work a six-hour shift and walk out of that shift with a hundred dollars in your pocket. “Like anyone who is effective at physical work, my mother learned to work smart, as she put it, to make every move count”
Blue Collar workers today are looked down upon by most of society. People think that if you have a blue collar job you aren’t smart and not successful. But in my opinion, blue collar workers are the backbone of our society, and deserve the same amount of respect as white collar workers. “Blue Collar Brilliance by Mike Rose” explains how blue collar workers are very smart and use a lot of brainpower to get their jobs done. Both his Uncle and mother were blue collar workers and that’s where he got his inspiration to stand up for blue collar workers around the world. He gives us examples of how his own family members were blue collar workers and how they were smart and how they excelled at their jobs. He uses his own experiences to show us that blue collar workers are in fact smart, able to adapt to many different situations, and deserve respect.
Is it better to be book smart or street smart? Is it better to be happy and stable or unhappy and ‘rich’? Blue-collar jobs require you to learn skills that college cannot teach you; Rose points this out in his essay, stating: “It was like schooling, where you’re constantly learning” (277). In the essay “Blue Collar Brilliance” written by Mike Rose, he talks about how his mother worked as a waitress and how his uncle Joe dropped out of high school, eventually got a job working on the assembly line for General Motors and was then moved up to supervisor of the paint and body section. Rose suggests that intelligence is not represented by the amount of schooling someone has or the type of job they work. In this essay I will be explaining why Rose
Through the various types of texts I went through, Mike Rose’s article on “Blue-Collar Brilliance” was the one that I felt I could personally relate to. I grew up in a family where manual labor was the key to a good income. Out of my entire family, I was the only one who graduated high school and went to college, therefore I grew up realizing that people didn’t necessarily need a college education to be considered “smart”. My father has been one of the smartest people in my family, I could explain my calculus homework to him and he would be able to quickly grasp at all the equations and concepts, even though he dropped out of high school as a freshmen in Mexico. In the fall of 2015, I had decided to skip a semester of college to find job opportunities outside of the education field. Starting off with high hopes, I quickly came to realize that job opportunities were hard to find. I came to have a lot
Have you ever wondered how certain individuals have an outrageous IQ score? Do you believe someone’s intelligence comes from their cultural back ground or do you believe that intelligence is inherited? This is a controversial topic that has been going on for years. This issue has been looked upon by philosophers in the past and is currently by scientists today. Some individual’s think that intelligence comes from your parents whereas others think intelligence comes from the environment in which you are surrounded in. Intelligence is a skill that allows you to apply and interpret information. Intelligence is important because you will have good comprehension skills and you will also be able to analyze different things. According to the dictionary, intelligence is the ability of acquiring and applying knowledge and skills. However, it’s not that simple, since intelligence is something that is often misunderstood. Some people believe
There are multiple different ways people can be intelligent, but here are three. One way people can be intelligent is by having a logical-mathematical mind. Another way people can be intelligent is by having a intrapersonal mind. And a third way people can be intelligent is by having a naturalist mind. By people having different minds, it adds to how everyone is unique.
Intelligence by definition is “the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills” (Oxford Dictionary, 2014). However, many psychologists argue that there is no standard definition of ‘intelligence’, and there have been many different theories over time as psychologists try to find better ways to define this concept (Boundless 2013). While some believe in a single, general intelligence, others believe that intelligence involves multiple abilities and skills. Another largely debated concept is whether intelligence is genetically determined and fixed, or whether is it open to change, through learning and environmental influence. This is commonly known as the nature vs. nurture debate.
This is rather one having been educated. Being educated and having a high degree of intelligence are two distinctive definitions. The difference of intelligence is one’s ability to apply what one has learned, instead of just storing information and being able to recall it. When looking at an AI’s measurement of intelligence, this can be tested by looking at how efficiently an AI can perform what it is programmed to do. In the majority of instances, AI can perform certain tasks more efficiently and securely than the average human. The reason being is that humans have the deficiency and tendency of not being able to contextualize a skillset thoroughly. This is due to the multiple factors that interfere with human learning. One’s surroundings, prior experience, age, insight, and motivation to perform a certain task all contribute to one’s ability to learn that task thoroughly and increase their overall intelligence. Although it can be inferred that an individual is at fault for experiencing these factors that inhibit learning, it is actually the brain’s chemistry that cause this setback. The human brain was built to for survival functionality. It wasn’t bred for the specialization of certains tasks that are currently popular in modern society. Instead, it was built to comprehend and adapt to any threats that can challenge