![]() ![]() Attending college is not the only way that a person can lead a happy and fulfilling life. I believe that higher education is definitely a worthwhile endeavor, but i also believe that it is the best route for some and not all. Not everyone has the means to acquire degrees and titles, some don’t even have the desire. ![]() Especially in today’s economy many people can not afford to pursue higher education, and that does not mean that they wouldn’t make excellent doctors or lawyers if they could afford the schooling. In the essay Blue Collar Brilliance written by Mike Rose, he talks about how his mother worked as a waitress and how his uncle Joe dropped out of high school, eventually got a job working on the assembly line for General Motors and was then moved up to supervisor of the paint and body section. I agree with Mark Rose that the amount of schooling a person completed does not necessarily measure their intelligence level. He explains how he observed different types of blue- collar and service workers in action, and came to the conclusion that each of them have a skill that takes a lot of mind power to master. He also details his uncles work at the General Motors factory and shows the amount of intelligence that was required of him as he rose from being in the production line to supervising paint jobs. He described the way she memorized who ordered what, how long each dish is supposed to take to prepare, and how she became a pro at deciphering the emotional needs of her customers and colleagues alike. ![]() Mike Rose, the author of the essay Blue-Collar Brilliance, reflects on the importance of our broader range of intellectual capacity and not put such a bias in good grades being equivalent to IQ levels. Mike Rose asserts that people in blue-collar jobs, deemed to be repetitive, routinary, and do not require high-level of literacy, actually require as much application of diverse skills including cognitive, verbal, mathematical, visual representations and illustrations, and analytical skills as people in white-collar jobs apply. He he depicts his mother as a dynamic woman who loved her job and put her heart and soul into being a waitress. Mike Rose, a professor at UCLA, wrote Bl ue-Collar Brilliance to provide evidence to show that blue-collar workers are just as intelligent as anyone el se. In this video, I talk a little more about the main ideas in Mike Roses essay 'Blue Collar Brilliance. Reading Response 6: Mike Rose, Blue-Collar Brilliance Question 1 Practicing a Critical Response. He describes his experiences growing up observing his mother as a waitress in coffee shops and family restaurants. He suggests that blue-collar and service jobs require more intelligence than meets the eye. In the essay, “Blue Collar Brilliance” Mark Rose challenges the view that intelligence can be measured by the amount of schooling a person has completed. ![]()
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