Their observations have focused on the work that is being accomplished and not taking into consideration the knowledge and training that must take place beforehand and on the job. People within society such as intellectuals, examples being scholars, have observed the working class people. In making this comment, Rose urges us to take a step back and to look at the society’s opinion as a whole and how they see that blue-collar work is not as demanding and brain powering than white-collar work. Rose advocates the emphasis on what our culture views as intelligence “Our cultural iconography promotes the muscled arm, sleeve rolled tight against biceps, but no brightness behind the eye, no image that links hand and brain” (Rose 247). With the focus being so, Rose presents that a broader perspective of views of education allows us to take cognitive learning seriously. In the article “Blue-Collar Brilliance” the main focus was to convey that there are more forms to intelligence then just intellectual. Throughout these essay writings, we see that intelligence should not be based only on intellectual readings but based on life experiences and hard work. Within today’s society, those who do not receive an education and become blue collar workers are shown to have significantly higher street smart abilities. Blue-collar workers can be seen to have a correlation to being street smart. ![]() In other words, Graff feels that society undermines street smarts. Graff believes that “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”(380) and that we tend to forget about the knowledge of “cars, dating, fashion, sports, TV or video games” (381). According to Rose, these workers that did not attend institutions of higher education were considered to be less intelligent than those that did. ![]() As seen in Roses essay, blue collar workers work hard and receive little to no recognition. ![]() Through the essays “Blue-Collar Brilliance” by Mike Rose and “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff one can see that academic intelligence isn’t everything. Moreover the inability to understand intellectual teachings such as those found in literature books. In today’s society, a lack of formal education is frowned upon.
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