Street smart equal to Book smart

In today’s society, people require better education to get high paying jobs. Therefore, parents always force their child to have good education even though their child is not interested in that particular career. Before, parent force them they should find out that is their child a street smart or a book smart? After that they can encourage them to pursue their career in that direction. In the essay “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff argues that street smarts can be considered as same as book smarts. Similarly, Graff’s idea relates to the TV show called Suits, it’s a show about how lawyer have to deal with their client. They both work for one firm; this firm only allows Harvard graduates students to work there. There are two main characters in this show called Mike Ross and Harvey Specter. They both have different education Mike is a college dropout and Harvey graduated from Harvard Law School. But, Mike has a photographic memory which allows him to remember anything he read or see for long time. Harvey finds out that Mike consume knowledge that Harvard student do not have. So, he hire Mike as his firm as an associate but without letting anyone know that he does not have Harvard law school degree. Even though Graff has written an essay and suits is a TV show about lawyer, they are actually in agreement about the important idea that street smart are same as book smart. Therefore, Gerald Graff’s ideas about how people can be educated without formal education, show their intelligence in different way, and how street smart influences on book smart. These can be used to understand the TV show called Suits.

First, Graff’s idea about people can be educated without formal education. Graff trying to convince reader that person does ...

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...s. It shows that how people can still successful without having formal education. In addition, it appears that people can be intelligence in different ways. Furthermore, it indicates that how street smart people help book smart to resolve the problems. Although it seems that our society has given more importance to the book smart rather than street smart. It seems like over the decades hidden intellectualism has been vanishing from society. Now day, people make their decision based on others; they always think that they want to be successful as others. Therefore, they always avoid their hidden intellectual skills which they are good at. I think we all need understand one thing that no matter whom we are either street smart or book smart, our future can be successful. I think Graff is proving that society should understand that street smarts are equal as book smarts.