The modern day individual has been given since birth preconceptions of intelligence, he has become predisposed due to ignorance on societal inclinations. Mike Rose and Gerald Graff are two intellectuals whose views on the varying degrees of “smarts” break away from societal stances. The highlights of both essays allow for a juxtapose that will in turn allow the readers to take away from both authors presented evidence, manners of thinking, and experiences.
In “Blue Collar Brilliance” Mike Rose stated that the manipulation of tools “is intimately tied to the knowledge of what a particular instrument can do”(Rose 137). He rejects the association between intelligence and formal education as the only and ideal relationship between a form of
