Get Smart

People say that book smarts are all you need to get by in life, but what if your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere? People with just book smarts would just break down, some might even call for help, but what if help never arrives? People with some street smarts would be able to fix their problem and not even need to panic in a situation where their car breaks down because they know what to do. If someone has never been in a situation that required something not taught in school, would…

day life experiences, their actions on several activities and how wise their decisions are made. These people are generally known as “Street Smarts”. In the essay “Hidden Intellectualism,” Gerald Graff puts his point that street smarts should not be taken lightly and should be valued equally as “Book Smarts”. The article also talks about how one can be prone to take on intellectual identities if encouraged to do so by first letting…

Animals are Smart Some people think that we are superior to animals but I think that animals are as smart as we are. Pets react to your moods and seem to know just when It’s dinner time! Some animals use tools, communicate and think for their own. If animals can use tools, they must be smart. For instance, a cow named Betty made a hook out of a piece of metal wire. That’s obviously pretty smart but she didn’t stop there.She then used the hook to get treats out of a glass tube.…

Smart phones have certainly has been proven to be a type of technology that has changed the way that we have lived as humans in society. Thanks to this technology billions of people around the world are able to communicate, work, and play games seamlessly without much user effort. However despite the great things that people are able to accomplish with this technology, very few have taken the time to think about how it affects their lives. This is something that is somewhat peculiar since it…

How do your skills , interest , and smart goals help shape my future. My skills, interest , and smart goals help shape my future for many reasons , like they can help with choosing my major in college , they can help me make and set goals for myself , or even help you with planning out your life with your family. My skills , interest , and smart goals can help with choosing a major in college because if you are interested in mathematics you would not want to choose a major in being a language…

Can a person who never went to school be smart? Or are books the key to education? The misconceptions of society sees being smart is a person who went to school to learn a subject, or got a degree in a specific field. Others see book smarts as knowing your way through life. Gerald Graff argues in his essay, “Hidden Intellectualism,” that being street smart is better than being book smart. I agree and disagree with this because, being smart depends on where you grew up or your culture. I disagree…

Smart phones have caused serious harm to people and society, without users coming to such realization. Wherever an individual might be, they will see hundreds of people with their faces implanted into the tiny screens of their smart phones. It seems that phones are more valuable and significant to people than the world around them in today’s generation. These technological interactions have distracted the people from the present world and have deteriorated face-to-face communication skills and…

"Hidden intellectualism", written by Gerald Graff, was aimed towards an audience of people that want to understand the differences between book smarts and street smarts, and how streets smarts can be used within your educational path allowing the audience to either want to go about doing that by determining if the author gave good or bad advice through their experience; written in 2003. I would be one of those people that's the target audience due to my hidden intellectualism I have instilled…

through what they learned in school. This begs me to classify, which is more valuable in life: book smarts, street smarts or to possess both qualities equally. Book smart people are usually the individuals who most likely exceed in school and graduate with straight honors or scholars. As well as, these people follow the rules and gain information from someone else’s writing. To clarify, book smart people are very intellectual when it comes to certain academic subjects like science, history,…

issue "Why We Hate The Smart Kids" by Grant Penrod. I'm going to argue with the author on this one because I agree with everything he is trying to teach us in this article. For many students in high school or even college, it's the best time for them, most of them only come for the sports or the debate teams. In any high school, there are many different groups like; the jocks, the boring kids, the stoners, and the nerds. Out of all the groups I have said the one that gets the most heat are the…