Blue Collar Brilliance

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There are various opinions on many different topics, such as on new ways of learning. In the articles "Preparing Students for the New Reality" by Donald Miller S. and Thomas Slocombe E., "Mind Over Mass Media" written by Steven Pinker, and "Blue Collar Brilliance" by Mike Rose all share ideas and that are similar about learning, but have different perspectives of how to learn. Much agreement exists regarding different ways of learning, and is connected through experience, difference in teaching, and different mind sets in order to succeed.
Steven Pinker and Mike Rose both connect learning to experience. Rose points out "accomplished people do not bulk up their brains with intellectual calisthenics; they immerse themselves in their field,"(1031)
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Steven Pinker believes people should use technology to their advantage "because it keeps us smart"(1031). 'In Blue Collar Brilliance' Mike Rose presume that people learn from experience and in 'Preparing Students for the New Reality,' Donald Miller and Thomas Slocombe conclude that students learn from their educators and should rely more on educators then themselves. Rose, Miller, and Slocombe agree that through experience and teaching, people will learn how the world functions. Rose gives examples of this because his Uncle Joe and mother both state they learn something new every day in their blue-collar job and Miller and Slocombe claim it is the educators that need to teach the students on how to obtain experience in the most successful way possible. "Surviving in this environment is quite an achievement," (Miller and Slocombe) which agrees to Rose's examples of his mother and Uncle Joe that they have achieved through hard work and experience. Miller and Slocombe believe in hard work because of "triple convergence" that there is a lot of competition. Rose also believes in hard work but he claims that technology will keep us intelligent but we have to use it and research information to learn on our own. All three articles agree that without hard work then there will be no

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