Summary Of Mike Rose's Blue Collar Brilliance

Inspired by the hardworking identity that blue-collar workers shaped in their careers, Mike Rose, in his article titled "Blue-collar Brilliance", describes that intelligence is not only developed with a high educational level but throughout experiences, involvements, and interrelations in a workspace. When Mike Rose was a child, he used to visit his mother and uncle at their job, and he paid careful attention to how the they behaved in the work environment influencing him later to study the relationship between the blue-collar jobs and the demand of both body and brain. Mike Rose first started to think about this topic by evoking all the memories of visiting his mother at her job as a waitress. He could witness that his mother was very skilled and agile at her job even though she quit school. Likewise, he remembered that in order to satisfy every client, his mother had developed smart and efficient ways to complete each of her tasks with which she even took into consideration her co-workers' mood. Rose noticed that his mother’s job not only was about being a waitress who only cares about what the clientele wants to eat, but also about being a human that understands the costumers' emotional needs. …show more content…
Even though Mike Rose's first years of college were academically bumpy he made it through to eventually belong to a school of education as a faculty member. Having focused in the educational level of the working class, Mike Rose comments that “generalizations about intelligence, work, and social class deeply affect our assumptions about ourselves and each other, guiding the ways we use our minds to learn, build knowledge, solve problems, and make our way through the world”