George Orwell On Street Smarts

This paragraph talks about how we all know that one person who is so smart but when it gets to being in school they don't try. This is asking us if schools and colleges have fault for not getting to this “street smart” kids and having them use their intelligence in an academic way. Schools nor colleges look at how intelligent street smarts are. They don't consider their intelligence to be something academical. for schools and colleges to consider someone intelligent they have to know about Shakespeare, pluto, and other but they don't take in mind that some people may be intelligent in other things not just in Shakespeare writing.
Many professors expect a student to have an interest in texas like from Shakespeare but they don't realize …show more content…
By teaching the student what they are interested in will help them identify themselves it will help them know who they are and what they want.
When you find what you really like in life you may think it has nothing to do with school and sometimes what seems like an intellectual thing might end up being good for you. Like for George Orwell when he was an adolescent he liked sports over a school and his entire life he thought it was an intellectual thing but now that he thinks about it wasn't an intellectual thing he says.
George Orwell tells us about the place he lived in a neighborhood located in Chicago, he says how it was a mess after war world 2. After war word 2, there were many gangs and he realized it wasn't good to be smart and he was also desperate to be accepted in a gang.
When he was a teen he wanted to be accepted so bad but he was also scared of being beaten up he had to make a choice if either to be intelligent or to be tough physically.
George Orwell always thought he was unintelligent because he thought that his interests did not have any connections to intelligence. But now he sees that his interests aren't just for nothing but it was actually helping him become an