Being intelligent means being able to apply what we learned in school and use what we learned in our daily lives to achieve a set goal or a goal that we accomplish without knowing it. Many people think a person is smart because they went to college, got a degree, and have a well-paying job. So she must be intelligent and know everything, but this is not always true. If we asked a teacher or professor, the chances that they would know how to repair a car are slim. So why do we think teachers are so smart? We believe that teachers are smart because they know everything about their subject, know how to teach it and how to apply their knowledge in their daily lives. People can become smart by learning or following their passion in what they love. If someone likes repairing cars, there is a chance that they will become a mechanic, so they will be smart in this career. This is how someone becomes intelligent because he has learned everything he can about his profession from books or from what he learns on the street. Becoming a smart person is important in society because it sets a standard for us and we try to learn everything we can to be the best in our job and career, so that we can be the best in our field. In "Blue Collar Brilliance" Mike Rose argues that intelligences cannot be measured by the education we received in school, but by how we learn them in our daily lives. He talks about his life growing up and watching his mother serve in a restaurant. He described her orders perfectly, including who got what, how long it took to prepare each dish, 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 needed to work in the factory. Rose goes on to talk about the different types of blue collar workers and how he came up with the idea that a person has skills that require a lot of mental power to acquire. Why does our society think that people who have blue collar jobs don't? need smart people to work there? This is a lie according to Rose: Although many types of physical labor do not require a high level of literacy, there is more reading in blue-collar workplaces than is generally believed, from from manuals and catalogs to work orders and invoices, lists and labels. , and forms.