Street smart, which is the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment be it people management, project management, or business management, comes from experience. The purpose of the article is that street smarts should not be overlooked because in many cases they can offer more life skills than the education provided in school. Street smarts trump book smarts if you want to get. The stereotype of a book smart person is someone who is upperclass and well educated but less knowledgeable when it comes to handling important situations faced in bad neighborhoods and lower. Tomas chamorropremuzic, hr examiner editorial advisory board contributor. This distinction is a direct challenge by the youth to the dominant discourse of smartness or book smarts as it operates in schools. There is no doubt in my mind street smarts kicks book smarts ass.
A standard definition for street smarts is someone who has situational awareness, which means being aware of what is going around them. A book smart has only word experience, as he or she is a book worm. It solely is a theoretical understanding of facts or ideas. In reality both types are needed to more or lesser degrees. However, the underlying idea is that the person deals with situations especially bad or difficult situations from an intellectual d. My friends in college who had more street smarts than book smarts were the first to receive job.
Most people spend a small fortune on a college education for book smarts but when you get in the real world, you must also have street smarts. In that case, street smarts are usually the underestimated variety of intelligence, and often implied to be more important in the end. Although many successful musicians may not have book smarts, they certainly have the street smarts needed to succeed in the music industry. Its clear that some people have better judgment than others. Teaching street smarts to kids kept off the streets. A competent person has positive qualities of book smart and street smart people. However, the stereotype of a street smart person is someone who is intelligent and knows how to handle.
Theres just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts. The company is fully licensed by the iowa department of education and the iowa department of transportation. Why street smarts always win out over book smarts when it. The general definition of book smart is someone who is intelligent and very well educated academically. Getting along with others knowing which questions to ask and not asking too many,being polite and friendly, but also being assertive. Another huge distinction between book smarts and street smarts is who is in the middle of the knowledge. While many, if not most, people hold book smarts in the highest regard, the truth is. Junior, addison even, feels that the two different types of intelligence are important.
You are essentially studying what someone else has discovered. Now, those streets might be dirt roads, but she knows what shes doing. Is also used as a noun, as in, she has book smarts. When the cannon group acquired the rights to superman iv. Book smarts refer to the education, schooling and other kinds of knowledge that one has acquired. Usa today street smarts is another great read from one of the most astute global investors of our time. In the real world out there, street smart trumps book. This trope may go handinhand with book dumb, illustrating that there is more than one way in which to be intelligent. The street smart aspects of this person enable him or her to be adaptable and sensitive to the. After all, a street smart but book dumb character might fail a chemistry test, but a book smart and street stupid character may ace. Why you need to be street smart, not book smart better. Being street smart can lead to book smarts as the street. The show, which was presented by frank nicotero, aired in syndication from 2000 to 2005. Just as useful as book smarts, and in many cases more so.
With wisdom, humor, and amusing antidotes, the investment biker recounts his lifes experiences in a manner that is as entertaining as it is educational. Bittenbinder, the man who taught him street smarts as a kid, the two and zooey deschanel realize they all. And when common, everyday survival in prison required getting over, i could do that too. However, she also believes the two to be valued differently at pv and in society, in pv i think book smarts are more valued because academics are very. Emberton, president, huntington university i highly recommend mitch kruses book street smarts from proverbs. A while ago a fair while ago, i wrote a series of blog posts detailing the major difference between types of mental competence. Graff suggests that by allowing students to express their passions in their schoolwork, students will naturally become more interested in literature and more eager to thrive. But someone who has book smarts also has that same awareness, right.
What is the difference between book smart and street smart. Adventures on the road and in the markets as want to read. First, let me explain that the skills children need for where the sidewalk ends are called street smarts. Adventures on the road and in the markets kindle edition by rogers, jim. On this program we talk about words and expressions that we use in. The rise of cities and the fall of cars schwartz, samuel i.
He or she could learn from others mistakes without repeating them. Street smart was a longtime pet project of christopher reeve, but he was having difficulty getting the film financed. The argument that street smarts should not be overlooked. This person possesses a strong grasp of facts, information, and precedents like book smart people. The figured world of smartness in the lives of marginalized, urban youth. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading street smarts. What he lacks in book knowledge he makes up with his street smarts and policing instincts, which often prove equally helpful to the investigation. Using your intelligence effectively in college by frozenflan on january 31, 2014 its the question weve all had in our minds as. On the flip side, being book smart comes from being wellversed with books. With book smarts, children sit in a classroom and teachers.
You can have all the book smarts in the world, but the real world will eat you up and spit you out if you aint able to play the game. Street smarts from proverbs brings alive valuable tenets of scripture within a context of practical principles of discipleship, active followership and mentorship. Being street smart beats being book smart any day of the week. Why making kids street smart is a smart choice for parents. Heshe will spend years in med school learning procedure after procedure. Know a good few people who are just street smart who do quite well for themselves. She needs to see when a predators actions correlate with her own.
The ability to spot a venture and the knowledge of business. Street smarts also known as practical knowledge or common sense is essential to orienting yourself in everyday situations, whether its getting around a new neighborhood. This is what was approvingly described by my fellow prisoners as streetsmarts, as in you wouldnt think it to look at her, but pipers got streetsmarts. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Theres money smart, theres movie smart, theres computer smart. Now, its time for words and their stories from voa learning english. To the youth, street smarts are more important because they are connected to being able to maneuver through structures in their lives such as poverty, the police, street culture, and abusive others. While which one is more helpful can be a matter of debate and also depends on the context, it is generally seen that street smarts weigh more on the scale when it comes. The california water boards include the state water resources control board and nine regional boards the state water board is one of six environmental entities. Book smart is an adjective describing a person whose knowledge greatly derives from. Book smart is simply describing that the person as generally intelligent, well educated and do well academically. However, to amass a truly sizable personal fortune, youll probably need a. In this book jim rogers invited us to think and do thinks outside of the box making emphasis on the.
Street smarts was a united states game show that featured two instudio contestants trying to predict the outcome of interviews of people who were found on the street. However, the term is usually used to contrast and compare with another term known as street smart. I talk about intelligence, cleverness, cunning and wisdom that post is all about what the words mean, where they come from, and how those types of intelligence are applied, as a means of making sense for a reader when. Whereas, street smarts refers to the experiential knowledge on things. The contestant who overcomes his or her personal fear factor wins the cash and prizes at the. Know plenty of people with a ton of book smarts who didnt go to far in life. The book rises to an unforgettable climax in a passage on the whitmanesque sidewalk ballet, one of the most inspired, and. On a saturday morning in december 1973, a section of new yorks west side highway collapsed under the weight of a. The quest for peace, reeve agreed to do the film partly because cannon promised to. Both are displays of intelligence, they simply differ in the areas of intelligence that reign dominant within a person. A street smart has world experience, as he or she has gone through the university of hard knocks.
Common sense knowing who you can trust, which areas in town are good and which are bad, etc. It is great to read a book and learn about a particular subject, viewpoint or opinion. Book smarts as opposed to street smarts are viewed very differently at pleasant valley and in society. In the real world out there, street smart trumps book smart. She gives the teacher a smart answer in class one too many times. I personally have no street smarts, so i like being around people who have a similar educational backgroundinterest to me who can also teach me a thing or two about how the real world works. Street smarts, however, encompasses knowledge that generally cannot be learned through education but rather, from experience. California storm water multiple applications and report. She needs to notice when he finishes his coffee at the same time, or walks to the food court at the same time. Street smarts is locally owned and operated and employs only iowa certified licensed instructors. In fact, it is more the case that they are two sides to the same coin. The teacher may say to her, do not get smart with me, young lady.
Sure, your friends always tell you how clever you are. Street smart the psychology of good and bad judgment. Test your smarts with these savvy questions to find out if youre book smart or street smart. People who are too book smart are too prudish and uptight for me, while people who are too street smart are too loose and uncouth for me. Street smarts meaning in the cambridge english dictionary. Street smarts trump book smarts if you want to get seriously rich. The youth made key distinctions between being book smart vs.
Whether one is more versed in street smarts or book smarts depends on the circumstances one has grown up under. Just to set an example in regardings to the topic, when the economy comes down to a threat where individuals will be drafted to war, street smarts will doubt less and think of strategies in order to survive through the battlefield,while on the other hand book smarts are hesitating about. Theres book smart, there is street smart, theres relationship smart, theres too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Youve been tested and have a bank of courage to depend on when you are tested again. Detective bittenbinder takes issue with john mulaneys. My friends in college who had more street smarts than book smarts were the first to receive job offers upon graduating. Common sense for the real world, author gordon meyers talks about how people who are street smart develop a keen sense of situation awareness that affords them a distinct advantage over others as they steer through life, and it all starts at a very young age.
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