“Blue-Collar Brilliance” is about Mike Rose challenging the view that perspicacity can be quantified by the amount of schooling a person has consummated. He suggests that blue-collar and regular jobs require
Gerald Graff and Mike Rose both share the important trait of “the value of non academic intelligence” because they both talking about gaining knowledge, satisfying intellectual thirst and education not taking non academic knowledge into account. Author Gerald Graff’s talks about how colleges and schools are not taking into consideration the importance of “street smarts.” We may not see this type of intellectuals as important but they are. One and all know one person who is not that bright but can solve a difficult challenge and has useful knowledge about our environment.
If education is not teaching you how to use the knowledge, the diploma would be the most useless stuff in the world. While, the common sense of people still tend to believe education means smart, vice versa. “You got college degree, you, you must be smart!” that’s many people may say to a college graduate several decades ago. However, are the graduates really as smart as people believe?
Mike Rose disagrees with the assumption that “Intelligence is closely associated with formal education” (Mike, 247). Formal education does not always measure the level of intelligence of a person. Education as something people can gain not only in school, but every day of their lives. We should be learning from our experiences, and apply this knowledge to our everyday lives. Wisdom should not be looked at as just
In Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, discuss that “If intelligence matters only up to a point, then past that point, other things – things that have nothing to do with intelligence – must start to matter more,” (86). “To be a Nobel Prize winner apparently, you have to be smart enough to get into at least as good as Notre Dame or the University of Illinois. That’s all,” (Gladwell 83). The author is explaining that getting to the well-known university doesn’t means you’re likely going to win a Nobel Prize.
Many people think that just because someone is academically smart they’ll automatically achieve success. Just because someone has a high IQ doesn't mean they're guaranteed success. Authors such as Malcolm Gladwell in the Outliers gives many examples of why academic intelligence may not be enough. Social class, IQ, practical intelligence, and luck are key factors of achieving success.
These points that the author describes validated his belief about the way society treats smart people. The reasoning for why he believes that we need to pay more attention (heed) to intelligent people is justifiable and allows his argument to become more credible and taken more
In order to be truly educated, a person should be well rounded not in just tests of intelligence, but the tests of life as well. This poses the question would you rather be completely educated in one subject and be unable to answer basic questions, or have a general knowledge of the world and understanding of how to function in society. Too often we correlate having a high IQ and a high grade point average with the education level, but in reality is any of that helpful if you can’t put gas in your car. “We associate the educated life, the life of the mind, too narrowly and exclusively with subjects and texts that we consider inherently weighty and academic” (Graff 244).
In the novel Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell gave a well put together read that gives us much to think about when trying to define success and what factors are important in shaping whether a person becomes successful or not. Prior to reading Gladwell’s Outliers my views probably were like most that success usually comes from one’s hard work and genius and that we all have an equal chance for success, but after reading Gladwell’s theories and explanations on how many outside factors can influence success, I now have some different conclusions about intelligence and how outside factors such as socioeconomic background and the way we are raised are also important influences of who and what we become and not just simply how high ones IQ or intelligence is measured. Malcolm Gladwell’s The Outliers chapter three and four, The Trouble with Genius Part 2, explains how where we come from and how we are raised influence our success and even those with similar above average IQ’s may not have the same opportunity for success because of these factors. Even though a high IQ may set us apart as an outlier, because of our economic background we may not have the same opportunities as someone with the same IQ.
Generally the social structure in a community is split into a hierarchy, so all of the richer and “more successful” people are socially connected. Anyone coming from a financially stable family is more likely going to afford attending a very prestigious university or school as they are also on the higher side of the spectrum for tuition costs. Gladwell points out that having an insanely high IQ, amazing athletic skills, or savvy communication skills alone are not enough to make people successful because “no one – not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses – ever makes it alone” (Gladwell 115). Friends and family play a big role in each other’s life.
In the article, “The War on Stupid People”, Freedman depicted the emphasis the society has placed on determining or facilitating human capacity has failed the less intelligent people. Freedman detailed his argument by providing evidence on how intelligence played a huge role in employment opportunities and academic performance. Moreover, he illustrated the issue of the economically disadvantaged/less intelligent, the current approach is flawed in the favoring the intelligent. He asserted with the evolution of the view of intelligence to the point as becoming a detrimental measure for human worth. He developed his main message by first established a neutral tone by providing statistical evidence of what a significant role intelligence has played,
Hard work determine your level it can make you into a professional person. In Outliers: "The story of Success", a non-fiction story written by Malcom Gladwell's. It explain that "the people at the very top don't work just harder or even harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder." This said by Gladwell explain that people who work to get into a high level have to work extra harder to reach their goals.
“Blue Collar Brilliance” After Graduating High School students have a choice of going to college or not. College is a place where students want to be educated or have a better job in the future. Some people believe that students who go to college more intelligence than students who go working after graduating high school. However, going to college does not means all students as intelligence; because students might go to colleges to have a degree, but not to be intelligence. Sometimes intelligences can be measures by the level of school a student completed, but for a blue collar job they need to practice and observe in the field to be able to perform the job on they own preference.
These people all have one thing in common, they either did not finish or attend an upper level school. The intent of the statement is to draw the necessary conclusion that some people can become extremely successful without a degree. Which in this case is well achieved as many of the figures mentioned are well known, and are not only successful via wealth, but by
In the book Outliers, Gladwell slowly began to crumble my faulty beliefs and starts to show me that having the highest IQ doesn’t necessarily mean one will be successful and that you can achieve success no matter what college one goes to. Society began to embed in my mind that I needed to attend a school of high ranking so that I could be successful. How does a school get ranked when they all offer the same Bachelor’s or Associate's Degree? This belief started to break down as I began to become more independent during high school. I’ve realized that we are all so focused on this number that society has placed that we are ignoring reality.
