![]() ![]() ![]() “When we devalue the full range of everyday cognition, we offer limited educational opportunities and fail to make fresh and meaningful instructional connections among disparate kinds of skill and knowledge” (Rose, para. Perhaps more importantly, he points out why this matters so much. Much more than missing opportunities to acknowledge both skill and knowledge amongst blue-collar workers, Rose argues that society is actually “affect the work creates in the future” (para. By making this statement he indicates that there is an overarching argument that he is passionate about. Near the end of his essay he declares, “If we think that whole categories of people-identified by class or occupation-are not that bright, then we reinforce social separations and cripple our ability to talk across cultural divides” (Rose, para. Rose is arguing that we are perpetuating a divided society with the oversight of what he calls, “diverse intelligence” (para. Although he clearly points out that the cognitive skills that these workers bring to their jobs deserve recognition, the author is driving at a broader argument. paint-and-body department during his 33 years with that company (para. He notes that his uncle Joe’s formal education ended with the eighth grade yet he became a supervisor of a G. Rose further develops this theme with examples from the working career of his uncle Joe Meraglio. Multi-tasking, memorizing orders, and skillfully handling the diverse emotions of both customer and staff are a few of the cognitive demands that he highlights in her work (Rose, para. Rosie, as Rose refers to his mother, utilized a broad range of knowledge and skills to effectively manage the physical and mental demands of her job. He illustrates his mother’s brilliance in her work by opening his essay with detailed examples of the cognitive demands placed upon her in her waitress jobs. Like the title of his essay suggests, Rose acknowledges the physical labor required of blue collar workers but seeks to refute the “belief that work requiring less schooling requires less intelligence” (para. An overall reflection on my digital story.Mike Rose (2013), in his essay Blue Collar Brilliance, presents a fascinating picture of the varied demands placed on much of America’s working class.Response to Mairs’ “On Being a Cripple”.Response to Brainard, Codrescu, and Wolff. ![]() Meanwhile, student loan debt is on the rise while the job market for STEM and other popular fields of work are becoming more and more competitive. Mike Rowe talks about how blue-collar work is abundant, 3 million jobs to be exact, but that there are no enough skilled or interested applicants for them because many young people fear that blue-collar work does not pay well or is unstable. I found this interesting interview on Youtube about unemployment and education in America today. This was really interesting because I have done research about education and intelligence testing, and how universities and colleges put too much emphasis certain types of intelligence and on SATs/test scores, which themselves are flawed and do not even accurately assess scholastic ability. Intelligence is not limited to literacy and mathematical skills, and by considering other kinds of intelligence unimportant we as a society are devaluing entire populations in the workforce and creating a social class dichotomy among members of society. Rose states that there are many kinds of cognition, from everyday cognitive abilities to spatial reasoning to artistic abilities. What I found most interesting was Rose’s take on intelligence testing and the modern education system, which relies heavily on the quantifiable and does not take into consideration all types of cognitive abilities. He also talks about his Uncle Joe’s job as a foreman for General Motors, and how his job was a daily learning experience that required cognitive skills and reasoning. He learned that blue-collar work is both physically and emotionally draining, and that workers learn to make their every move count. He talks about his childhood going into the restaurant in which his mother worked, watching her manage the customers and keep the food orders and the entire place orderly. Rose talks about his mother Rosie, a waitress. In “Blue-collar Brilliance” Mike Rose makes strong arguments against the societal notion that blue-collar workers are unintelligent and have low social ranking. Both of this week’s readings by Miah Arnold and Mike Rose were very touching and interesting. ![]()
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