Street Smarts v. Book Smarts
Street Smarts v. Book Smarts
#1Street Smarts v. Book Smarts
Posted: 11/29/09 at 10:04pm
I'm trying to write about the differences and similarities between "Street smarts" and "book smarts."
If anyone has anything to contribute, maybe some fun stories or help with defining the terms it would be appreciated.
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Yawper
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/13/04
#2re: Street Smarts v. Book Smarts
Posted: 11/29/09 at 10:09pm
street smarts = real world experience
book smarts = protected world and primarily theoretical experience
#2re: Street Smarts v. Book Smarts
Posted: 11/29/09 at 10:12pm
^ I agree
Book smarts = How you SHOULD handle a situation
Street smarts = How you WILL handle a situation
#3re: Street Smarts v. Book Smarts
Posted: 11/29/09 at 10:13pm^ I like that description, haha.
#4re: Street Smarts v. Book Smarts
Posted: 11/29/09 at 10:19pmMy brother is very book smart. Graduated #11 in his class in high school. NYU Honors program. But he'll put a case of root beer in the freezer.
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#5re: Street Smarts v. Book Smarts
Posted: 11/29/09 at 10:27pmStreet smarts are great, but it still depends upon which street you've lived.
#6re: Street Smarts v. Book Smarts
Posted: 11/29/09 at 10:42pmTouche Q.
killertofu333
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/08
#7re: Street Smarts v. Book Smarts
Posted: 11/29/09 at 10:49pm
Street smarts are great, but it still depends upon which street you've lived.
Very true. I don't think my middle class suburban Maryland upbringing is helping me much in the "Please don't let the big scary man from the big city take advantage of me" department. I'm fine scrapping with a dull witted rube but other than that my book smarts aren't doing much for me.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#8re: Street Smarts v. Book Smarts
Posted: 11/29/09 at 10:55pmBook smarts are mocked and belittled in contemporary America, ruled as it is by The Isolated Media Queen ("No questions, PLEASE") Sarah Palin, for whom being smart is being "elite," for whom an undistinguished education at multiple colleges is "good enough" and anything better is uppity, stuck up, not trustworthy. In this America, vindictive score settling over any issue minor or major is now considered "street smart", even if the streets are in the Meth Capital of Alaska.
Yawper
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/13/04
#9re: Street Smarts v. Book Smarts
Posted: 11/30/09 at 12:51am
book smarts are often accompanied by the false promise of success
instead all many realize is starting life in the real world burdened by crippling student loan debt
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