Human beings are gifted with one thing that no other creature in this universe is: the ability to think. Thinking is one of the best things we as humans get to experience and share. That being said, I never grokked the concept of thought; how it held so many layers beneath its surface. Through reading different articles about it and its similar concepts, my thought about thought—no pun intended of course— has become more complex, to say the least.
Throughout our course of life, the way we think changes as we go through different points in our lives. This was briefly explained by William Golding in his article, The Way of Thinking. He smartly classified people based on their way of thinking and embodied the three groups in the statuettes found
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The same goes for Isaac Asimov in his article, What is Intelligence, Anyway? He wrote about how being book smart doesn’t necessarily mean you are smart in all. In this article, Isaac talks about his mechanic and how he challenged him with a very easy but yet tricky question. The mechanic said being too educated can strip you out of your natural instincts and thinking abilities given to you as a human. It can decrease your flexibility in logical aspects of day to day life. One quality of his I admired was, though he thought highly of himself, he was humble enough to admit that he wasn’t good at …show more content…
Some might think that the thinking process comes before the writing process and others might think the reverse. Same goes for William Zinsser, a lifelong journalist and nonfiction writer, and William Stafford, an American poet, and pacifist. In his article—A Way of Writing—Stafford believes that the writing process comes first. He relates the idea with the daily conversations we have with our friends, not needing to plan what we are going to say but still confidently say what we want to say. Same thing can be applied to writing. From his whole article, the sentence “We can’t keep from thinking.” Stood out to me the most. Knowing that something always occurs in our mind is the key to get the ideas flowing. The other idea he had was the willingness to fail. We should trust and forgive ourselves as for everyone has the “luck” and it’s about knowing how to sustainably use the language skill we have. On the other hand, Zinsser believes that the thought process proceeds the writing process. He believes that clear thinking becomes clear writing. One can not exist without the other. The common thing these two writers have is that they both think that the more minimalistic the better. Zinsser believes that clutter is a disease that is spreading through every writer's mind. Eliminating it will cure the society of the word chaos it is in. I appreciated his
A famous quote by Martin Luther King states “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.” The two articles “Hidden Intellectualism” and “Blue Collar Brilliance” both emphasis the author's opinion on the qualifications and measurements of someone's intelligence. “Hidden Intellectualism” focuses on students or younger people who have trouble with academic work because, they are not interested in the topic. Today, in schools students are taught academic skills that are not very interesting, the author mentions this is why children are not motivated in schools. The main viewpoint of this article is that schools need to encourage students
Thinking is just the capability to understand and analyze everything around you and make you capable
I think people who didn’t get much schooling didn’t mean they are not intelligence. Intelligence can’t use to measure a person schooling. In the old generation, parents don’t have much money to support all their child’s go to college because of the tuition fee and they had a lot things need to support. For example, my parents didn’t go to school, doesn’t mean they are not intelligence or not smart, their family can’t give them that much tuition fee and not much money to let them go to college, however now they still have a job to work on and keeping it. However people don’t go to college doesn’t mean they can’t get a job or can’t survive. So I agree with the author, intelligence can’t use to measure a person schooling. Also I believe that can’t go to college doesn’t mean you can’t get success in other way. The god is fair for you close a door at the same time will open another door for you but you need to be confident.
“Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have faith in the people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them”. This quote perfectly conveys Karen Ho’s perceptive that is present, in her article “Biographies of Hegemony”. In her article, she provides another understanding of intelligence. She uses the case of Wall Street workers and their personal and educational backgrounds to make her case. “Implicit in this transformation from undergraduate to investment banker is Wall Street's notion that if students do not choose Wall street postgraduation, they are somehow “less smart”, as smartness is defined by continued aggressive striving to perpetuate elite status” (Ho 18). Ho’s conception of the educational system has been narrowed down to the social norms that society places. Smartness is merely associated with individuals who go to the best Ivy League Schools, medical schools, law schools, and etc. If a student is attending such institute they
In “Hidden Intellectualism,” Gerald Graff pens an impressive argument wrought from personal experience, wisdom and heart. In his essay, Graff argues that street smarts have intellectual potential. A simple gem of wisdom, yet one that remains hidden beneath a sea of academic tradition. However, Graff navigates the reader through this ponderous sea with near perfection.
Gladwell and Graff, both agrees that education defines intellectualism. Both authors believe there are two types of educated people: street
In the essay “Getting Started” by Anne Lamott. The author reaches out to her students and other fellow writers who struggle to overcome the infamous writer’s block. Thought out her paper she gives us hints and tips to train and prep us for our future papers. Her tips range from training you mind to prepare for a long and often strenuous essay, learning to take information in slowly to not overwork your brain and the last one always tell the truth in your essay. She threads through her essay that writing may be hard and seems like there is no silver lining but it’s not impossible to do. When done reading this essay I widely agree with Lamott’s writing ideas and tips they can be helpful for many struggling students. As one myself I found
Everyone has common sense, or so it seems. Sometimes, looking at the actions of others, curiosity may strike; as to what goes goes through their head, we may never know. Just as a person may wonder about others, they may also be curious about the boys in The Lord of the Flies. Without common sense these boys struggled to survive
asking the boys to raise their hands up if they don’t want Ralph as a
In “ Blue Collar Brilliance” Mike Rose argues that intelligences can’t be measured by the education we received in school but how we learn them in our everyday lives. He talks about his life growing up and watching his mother waitressing at a restaurant. He described her orders perfectly by who got what, how long each dish takes to make, and how she could read her customers. He also talks about his uncles working at the General Motors factory and showed the amount of intelligence that was need to work at the factory. Rose goes on talking about the different types of blue-collar and how he came up with the idea that a person has skills that takes a lot of mind power to achieve.
Is it better to be book smart or street smart? Is it better to be happy and stable or unhappy and ‘rich’? Blue-collar jobs require you to learn skills that college cannot teach you; Rose points this out in his essay, stating: “It was like schooling, where you’re constantly learning” (277). 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. Rose suggests that intelligence is not represented by the amount of schooling someone has or the type of job they work. In this essay I will be explaining why Rose
Then she suggests following six rules that will “burn through” a place where we write our true ideas and feelings. Setting timed writing exercises to let your thoughts out without worrying about anything else. She says that first thoughts are often crushed by our “internal censor,” politeness, fear, and embarrassment. We should not be influenced by what people will say of our thoughts. Sometimes we omit the true of our thoughts because of the “burden of ego,” to try to be in control and logical. She states that first thoughts are full of energy because they are fresh and inspire
It is evident that Gerald Graff’s article is bias because he avoids talking about acquiring academic intelligence through academic learning rather than non-academic ways. For instance, Graff shows bias when he generalizes our way of seeing educated life and academics. He said that, “We associate the educated life, the life of the mind, too narrowly and exclusively with subjects and texts that we consider inherently weighty and academic. We assume that it’s possible to wax intellectual about Plato, Shakespeare, the French Revolution, and nuclear fission, but not about cars, dating fashion, sports, TV, or video games.” (Graff 264-5). Graff clearly thinks that everyone associates educated life with academics, when in reality this is not true. He believes that
...est high school students in America” (Gladwell 82). It was shocking to learn that all the Nobel Prize in Medicine winners did not all come from the most prestigious schools. Also, in the third chapter I notices some aspects that were highly relatable to me. My life relates to subjects included in chapter three because I am a student. It is interesting and helpful to learn that one does not need the highest IQ to succeed in today’s world. This is how I relate to chapter three. The third chapter in Outlier by Malcolm Gladwell had striking information that stated that IQs do not always determine who will be successful, and I can relate to the information in the chapter because I am student who has thought about my IQ before.
Well as I said we first must define ‘to think’. What does that mean? Webster’s New Compact Dictionary defines ‘think’ as "1. Have a mind. 2. Believe. 3. Employ the mind.". It defines mind as ‘to think’. So does this mean that if you can think does this mean you have a mind? My opinion is that, according to this definition, computers can think. A computer can give you an answer to the question ‘What is 4x13?’, so it can think. What’s that? You say it’s just programmed to do that, if no one programmed it wouldn’t be able to do that. Well how did you know how to answer the question? Your teacher or parent’s or someone taught it to you. So you were programmed, same as the computer was.