![]() His mother said, “There isn’t a day that does by in the restaurant that you don’t learn something” (Lunsford et al., 2012, pg907). Dealing with the customers and co-workers, serving, and the possibility of different types of problems she might face at the restaurant, she required to have multiple skills to be a waitress. He says that her working as a waitress required psychological skills to deal with the people at the restaurant and physical strength to serve the food (Lunsford et al., 2012, pg907). He uses couple examples of his mother who worked as a waitress to support his argument. Thus, conclusively, Rose is arguing that the blue-collar workers both physically and mentally endeavoring to their works enable them to use more cognitive thinking process. ![]() Additionally, they use more parts of the body and mind than other pink or white-collar workers. ![]() He also suggests that blue-collar workers have embedded psychology skills and knowledge such as human behavior from working experiences. The author of Blue-Collar Brilliance, Mike Rose, argues that blue-collar workers merit more recognition for the cognitive skills that they bring to their work (Lunsford et al., 2012, pg 914). What is the overarching argument that Rose is making in his article? What evidence in the text supports your answer? I agree with Mike Rose that wisdom is not limited to a high education, but rather, it is about gaining perception and understanding of the situation we are in.Rose is suggesting that blue-collar workers merit more recognition for the cognitive skills that they bring to their work, but that is not all he is arguing. We should be learning from our experiences as well as from a textbook, and apply this knowledge to our everyday lives. I view retaining information taught to us as a more important value than the grades at the outcome of school, because the actual knowledge we gain is what matters. The purpose of schooling is to teach us information that is important for our lives and future careers, but this does not limit the knowledge we should be obtaining. In my opinion, I view education as something people can gain not only in school, but every day of their lives. Rose points out that his mother’s job as a waitress and his uncle’s excellence in his job in the paint-and-body department are two instances in which people with a lower level of education excelled in their working field and gained hands-on experience and knowledge while on the job. Society characterizes intelligence solely based on grades in school and the results of IQ tests, but those numbers do not define the workers in these fields. Through a study involving the thought process and demands of service jobs, he insists that although our society separates the mind and body at these workplaces, in reality those workers are gaining a profound knowledge while working and obtaining a clear characterization of the tools involved in their job. In his essay, “Blue-Collar Brilliance,” Mike Rose suggests that just because certain jobs require less schooling than others, does not mean that there is less intelligence and thought involved in those fields.
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