Whether at a job, at home, or in between, any experience can be just as educational as a class at a university. In “Blue Collar Brilliance”, the author, Mike Rose, uses anecdotes from his family’s experiences to prove how although his family members might not have had much formal education, they all were “intelligent” due to the lessons they learned at work. Given my family’s own experience, I can attest to that.
Throughout all of the generations of my family, half have attended a traditional university, while the others went to work or had a different experience, some even had both. In the recent decade though, my cousins and I have leaned towards traditional classroom learning because that is what was taught to us in a class. At same time, …show more content…
An education in which students receive not only normal education in Math, English, and history, but they also are able to focus on learning a trade at the same time.
My freshmen year I wanted to go to our local vocational school to study Biotechnology, but my mom always looked down on non traditional sources of education. “Vocational school is for people who do not want to go to college,” my mom would say. “I went to vocational school and I turned out fine,” my dad would reply.
My dad went to our local vocational school to be trained in carpentry and though he never got a job directly tied to carpentry, he still retained all of his lessons and used his knowledge to help his friends, family, and to lend a hand to his dad’s drywall business. To this day he is one of the smartest people I know and most of his education he learned from working at his various jobs. He learned organization working the night shift at a grocery store; he perfected his carpentry craft building furniture for his family; he cared for people at a nursing home; and now he continues working in the shipping department of a medical laser company and has been for the past 18 …show more content…
He memorizes the maze of the building like the back of his hand, knows exactly what every part that goes into the lasers he ships does, and over years of experience, he has been able to apply his previous carpentry skills and decode the engineer 's’ notebooks in which they had to go to school to learn to write. He also has maintained and improved the skills that Rose uses for examples of skill that carpenters hone through experience rather in structured lessons:“An eye for length, line, and angle”.(911)
Skills that make someone intelligent come in many forms. From everyday analysis, to Math, to speaking and writing in a foreign language. and anywhere in between, are all skills that require brain power are intellectual skills that can be learned inside and outside of the classroom. The problem in today’s society though, is everyone 's definition of “smart” is different although the majority view being smart as being caused by going to school. Despite society heavily supporting traditional education, people still find ways to be successful and gain intelligence in their own
Throughout all of the generations of my family, half have attended a traditional university, while the others went to work or had a different experience, some even had both. In the recent decade though, my cousins and I have leaned towards traditional classroom learning because that is what was taught to us in a class. At same time, …show more content…
An education in which students receive not only normal education in Math, English, and history, but they also are able to focus on learning a trade at the same time.
My freshmen year I wanted to go to our local vocational school to study Biotechnology, but my mom always looked down on non traditional sources of education. “Vocational school is for people who do not want to go to college,” my mom would say. “I went to vocational school and I turned out fine,” my dad would reply.
My dad went to our local vocational school to be trained in carpentry and though he never got a job directly tied to carpentry, he still retained all of his lessons and used his knowledge to help his friends, family, and to lend a hand to his dad’s drywall business. To this day he is one of the smartest people I know and most of his education he learned from working at his various jobs. He learned organization working the night shift at a grocery store; he perfected his carpentry craft building furniture for his family; he cared for people at a nursing home; and now he continues working in the shipping department of a medical laser company and has been for the past 18 …show more content…
He memorizes the maze of the building like the back of his hand, knows exactly what every part that goes into the lasers he ships does, and over years of experience, he has been able to apply his previous carpentry skills and decode the engineer 's’ notebooks in which they had to go to school to learn to write. He also has maintained and improved the skills that Rose uses for examples of skill that carpenters hone through experience rather in structured lessons:“An eye for length, line, and angle”.(911)
Skills that make someone intelligent come in many forms. From everyday analysis, to Math, to speaking and writing in a foreign language. and anywhere in between, are all skills that require brain power are intellectual skills that can be learned inside and outside of the classroom. The problem in today’s society though, is everyone 's definition of “smart” is different although the majority view being smart as being caused by going to school. Despite society heavily supporting traditional education, people still find ways to be successful and gain intelligence in their own