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I see it, there are two kinds of smarts. There's school
smarts. And then there's street smarts.
School smarts encompasses all that you learned during the process known as “getting an education.” Street smarts, on the other hand, comprises all that you learned from what is known as the “rough and tumble of daily life.” People with school smarts are very easy to control through language.
For example, gather a bunch of college students together and ask them to
analyze the following quotation from a book by Nicholas Berdyaev, a Russian
philosopher:
But people with street smarts are very difficult to con with words. Take a group of kids with street smarts and ask them to do what you asked the other group to do. The kind of response you're most likely to get as they walk away with looks of disgust is something like, “Hey, man, don't jive me.” Now am I recommending that you avoid going to school? That you get your education on the streets instead? No. Not at all. What I am recommending is that you consider the pluses and minuses of each. School smarts will put you on the fast track in life, will open doors for you, something street smarts alone cannot do. But it's the street smarts that will carry you to success in life, something that school smarts alone cannot do. Ya gotta have both. Think about it. |
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Is freedom from the tyranny of words, which means regaining control of your life, worth the price of a good dinner? If you believe that it is, click on the image to the left. (Don't worry, doing so isn't going to lock you into anything.) If you don't believe that it is, then I can't help you. No one can. But remember, you only get one shot at life. And if that one shot is spent in unhappiness, frustration, under continual stress, in poor health, and so on, well, it's your own bloody fault for not doing anything about it. |
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