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DIRECTIONS: First write your quote in a word or google doc. Then double click here and a white square like this will appear. Cut and paste your text into the white square. Make sure you have the authors full name, a comma, a verb or expression such as "according to" to introduce the quote, the full accurate quote in "quotation marks" followed by a period and your comment on the quote.

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DIRECTIONS: First write your quote in a word or google doc. Then double click here and a white square like this will appear. Cut and paste your text into the white square. Make sure you have the authors full name, a comma, a verb or expression such as "according to" to introduce the quote, the full accurate quote in "quotation marks" followed by a period and your comment on the quote.

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Example from "The Blue Collar Quote" by  Quezada, Thamires, and Katherine.

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Example from "The Blue Collar Quote" by  Quezada, Thamires, and Katherine.

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The most important quality is how we push ourselves to improve our knowledge every day. Mike Rose writes, “We assume that the use of a tool does not involve abstraction. We reinforce this notion by defining intelligence solely on grades in school and numbers on IQ test” (62). As he said, most of the time we believe that intelligence only comes from education and we think that a simple job doesn’t require a cognitive effort, but the true is that we accumulate our own knowledge by experience.

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A lot of people think that people which work like a waiter don’t need use their brain a lot, but it is wrong opinion. Mike Rose in “Blue-Collar Brilliance” wrote “I’ve since studied the working habits of blue-collar workers and I have come to understand how much my mother’s kind of work demands of both body and brain.” This job required a very good memory and soft skills, even a knowledge of psychology.

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The people usually involve directly in the operation job physically more than theory also  spend long time using the recurrent tasks probably the brain it’s not going a work in full. Mike Rose writes  “ He lacked formal knowledge of how the machine under his supervision worked, but he had direct experience with them, hands-on experiment with them.” As Rose says hands-on means the people works in the jobs using the body not the brain.

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In the society that we are living right now, people have expectations from all of us. Sometimes our work defines us in society. Mike Rose states in his essay that “Generalizations about Intelligence, work, and social class deeply affect our assumptions about ourselves and each other, guiding the ways we use our mind to learn, build knowledge, solve problems, and make our way through the world” (56).

Assuming that you are not intelligent enough based on the position you work, is just a generalization that looks down on a Blue-Collar worker.

By Cristina Gonzalez

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According to Blue-collar brilliance..“Intelligence is closely associated with formal education the type of schooling a person  has, how much and how long and most people seem to move comfortably from that notion to a belief that work requiring less schooling requires less intelligence”(10) pp56. In other words a person becomes  smarter by studying and, It turns into a better person in terms of knowledge, It shows the importance of being educated and its importance therefore It Is basically related to human behavior.     By Fernando Tubac

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People who are in a position above us are the ones that make us feel useless and there is even humiliation and disrespect.  According to the lecture Blue-Collar Brilliance, “More the once I’ve heard a manager label his workers as “a bunch of dummies” Generalizations about intelligence, work,and social class deeply affect our assumptions about ourselves and each other, guiding the ways we use our minds to learn, build knowledge, solve problems and make our way through the world’’ (72, 52). There is a saying that says how much you have is how much you are worth. It is the same society that is responsible for the weakest of the people so they remain in that state to not grow in any aspect.
By Karen Ramirez

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Kendra Palacios

Blue-Collar Brilliance

A lot of people still thinking that everyone who is working in any type of labor job, they are not intelligence because sometimes they didn’t study much. Mike Rose in ¨Blue-Collar Brilliance¨ writes, ¨Intelligence is closely associate with formal education- the type of schooling a person has, how much and how long- and most people seem to move comfortably from that notion to a belief that requiring less schooling requires less intelligence¨ (56). As he said, almost always we have the wrong idea that intelligence is developing from study, but doesn’t matter for easy the job looks like, everybody is using their intelligence to accomplish that job in the best way.

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Elizabeth Mendoza

Quote Sandwich Blue-collar Brilliance

I work at a restaurant, so I have the knowledge of how hard and stressful it can be by working in this industry. In “ Blue-collar Brilliance” Mike Rose states, “ if we believe everyday work to be mindless, then that will affect the work we create in the future” (59). We have to look at our work as an opportunity to learn and develop skills that in the future can help us to have more opportunities for a better job.

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Rosa Mendoza

Quote Sandwich Blue-Collar Brilliance

In any work we work we need to learn new abilities by ourselves to be successful in our work no matter if we have academic skills. I relate this with “Blue-Collar Brilliance”. Mike Rose states, “Though many kinds of physical work don’t require a high literacy level, more reading occurs in the blue collar workplace than is generally  thought, from manuals and catalogues to work others and invoices, to lists, labels, and forms” (75). In other words, the blue collar workplace doesn't require academic knowledge, but it is more complicated and than it looks, it requires mental and physical work to develop efficient work.

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Intelligence not depends only of what kind of work we do or what is our social class. In “Blue Collar Brilliance” Mike Rose states, “These assumptions run through our cultural history, from the post-revolutionary war period, when mechanics were characterized by political rival as illiterate and thefore incapable of participating in government, until today” (61). That is a real example of how many people assume how smart you are if you work in a carwash or in an office.

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Different concepts are used to explain what intelligence is. All of them are pretty similar, but how would you define the word “intelligence”? Mike Rose states in “Blue-Collar Brilliance”, “Generalizations about intelligence, work, and social class deeply affect our assumptions about ourselves and each other” (56). Here, he is giving us a deep concept about how generalizing intelligence can bring doubts about ourselves, and can make us think that we are not intelligent or good at anything.