In the first reading “Blue-Collar Brilliance” written by Mike Rose, his main claim is that intelligence is looked an requirement to have in order to obtain a well-paying job, than a person who works and have little or no education at all; are seen as not very inteallencge people and cannot perform well nor axel in their jobs. An example from this reading is his uncle, Joe Meraglio, who left school in the ninth grade to work in Pennsylvania railroad leaving to join the navy, to returning to the railroad, to working with his brother in the general motors and then finally supervising the paint and body department. These jobs required no school but the jobs that required no school background were the ones where you are constantly learning by experience,
