In today’s world, the role of education is misguided somehow. Howard Gardner in his “5 minds for the future” and Thomas Friedman in “How to get a job at Google” (an interview with Lazlo Bock, vice president at Google) want to show the importance of certain skills and mindsets that education may not provide. The message of the article and book is the same, but they put emphasis on different things. The most significant similarity is that both of the readings want to show that GPA is not the necessity to succeed. There are a lot more important skills which are ignored because of the standard way of education. Gardner believes that the balance of all his listed minds may help people reach the top of their opportunities. He claims that they are crucial now and will be much more in the future because, in today’s world, full of …show more content…
On the other hand, Bock mentions leadership, ownership and “expertise” because the priority of Google is much deeper and valuable. However, there are some similarities, in coding ability by Bock and in the synthesizing mind by Gardner as well as in humility and ethical mind. For example, both synthesizing mind and coding ability are about highlighting important information from different sources and gather together. To sum the difference, Bock’s article is about what you can do with what you know, and Gardner’s book is about the right manner of thinking. In conclusion, traditional education is not a criterion for a successful career. Gardner and Bock support this idea but Gardner mentions different mindsets such as disciplined or creating, however, Bock includes abilities such as leadership or ownership. Therefore, for Gardner and Bock mindsets and abilities mentioned above are more important than GPA to
Many people consider book smart the only form of intelligence, but a lot of people who attended college and obtained a degree can’t perform a basic task of changing a flat tire. So does that make those people unintelligent? Mike Rose explains in “Blue Collar Brilliance” and Gerald Graff explains in “Hidden Intellectualism” that there are many different forms of intelligence. In Rose’s article, he explains how he observed his mother along with other family members work blue-collar jobs. He explains how everyone involved with blue collared work develops a sense of intelligence in many different forms. In Graff’s article, he explains how schools and colleges are doing a poor job at getting the full potential out of students. Graff thinks that if we give students things they like to read then they will progress to more scholarly readings. Both authors describe how society doesn’t value all types of intellectualism. Rose explains how people are stereotyping blue-collared jobs and not appreciating them. Graff explains how schools and colleges aren’t fostering intellectualism because they don’t take interests into account.
He starts by stating arguments about how the education needed decades ago is not what we need now. The education many have today isn’t the necessary to succeed in this new technological era. In today’s world we need to learn more about financial and globally. He states that classes should now be more interactive and deal with real life lessons. Lessons that will encourage them to be more creative and interactive. Encourage the new way of thinking, critical thinking. Teach students to learn in different environments. A skill to learn is to be adaptable in any environment. At first this will scare your or be uncomfortable. The new way of teaching should make you come out of your comfort zone and adapt. As well as teaching them to question everything and find the truth. How to think for themselves and how to develop their own ideas. I will be using this article because it gives a different view point with facts about the new way of education. How adaptation is major key. As well as the education of real life situations. Why be all book smart but fail in real life because you don’t have the knowledge in other areas. Schools should teach how to think for yourself but guide you in a way where you learn and educate yourself. This is different from having vocational. This educates more on the situations that may occur in the real life and how to react to them the best way
Many people in today’s society tend to believe that a good education is the fastest way to move up the ladder in their chosen. People believe that those who seek further education at a college or university are more intelligent. Indeed, a college education is a basic requirement for many white collar, and some blue collar, jobs. In an effort to persuade his audience that intelligence cannot be measured by the amount of education a person has Mike Rose wrote an article entitled “Blue Collar Brilliance”. The article that appeared in the American Scholar, a quarterly literary magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, established in 1932. The American Scholar audience includes, Company’s , Employees,
In the essay, “Blue Collar Brilliance” by Mark Rose he confronts the view that intelligence can be judged by the amount of schooling a person has completed through their lifetime. He suggests that blue-collar and service jobs are just as good, if not
Friedman tells his audience how technology is used nowadays for anyone wanting to improve themselves. Because of these changes people are now required to be more educated if they want to succeed in this so-called "401(k)" world. He states that " job started changing much faster, requiring
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” (qtd. in Quotes About Education” n.p.) “ Times have changed, higher education such as college is what most people need in order to have a successful career. Those who acquire higher education after high school tend to have a more successful career than those who do not acquire a higher education.
Education plays a vital role in this era. I support that education should not only be focused on books but also on critical sense and practical knowledge. Students should be able to experiment with the technological advancement and its outcomes.
Technology has evolved so much over the course of 82 years. People who were living in 1935 would have no clue what a computer is or what it could potentially become. Education itself and how we learn has come a long way. Everything was hand written. Now in 2017, we have every answer with just one touch of a button. Google is a search engine that holds almost every answer in the world. There are many opinions on the way humans in 2017 function, and process information. Nicholas carr is a respect author who writes about the relationship between technology and culture. He has written for the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, etc. He has written two great essay that have won The Best American Science and Nature Writing, The Best collected in Several Anthologies, The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and The Best Technology Writing. One of them which is titled, “Is Google Making Us Stupid.” Nicholas Carr argues that Google is not making humans stupid, but as technology progress our minds must adapt and change the way we think and process information. This essay has many rhetorical approaches. Nicholas Carr uses imagery, opinion, ethos, and pathos to persuade his audience, provoking a doubt on whether google is making humans stupid.
Everyone wants to have a successful career. The first step to a successful career is to obtain the job that you want. Obviously you need the education level for this occupation, but what else is going to give you a leg up on the competition? As a Sophomore in high school, I had the opportunity to job shadow a manager of engineers at an engineering firm. One of his responsibilities was going through the hiring process. As a prospective future employee, I was curious as to what he looked for most in an employee. He did not say education. He did not say experience. He said that they needed a hard working
One must possess the proper knowledge to have access to the opportunities. According to Friedman, if someone is not knowledgeable enough, someone else will be. This makes the world an increasingly competitive place to live, and it requires people to globalize themselves. Individuals are
The argument I identify in Thomas Friedman’s articles, it is about the college GPA, Test score, and degree is worthless. Laszlo Bock, said now days if students do not put enough effort to gain knowledge it’s pointless to spend too much money in their education in the end if they do not build good skills. I am agree with this argument I do see many students they just goes to universities because they think it is right to go but they don’t think what they going get out of it. It is big time investment of money, time and effort if students do not gain any knowledge it is useless in the end. In the Google Company they are looking for five hiring qualities general thinking ability, traditional leadership, humility and ownership, intellectual humility
Both essays are similar in many ways from how intellectual people don’t know actually how smart they are or just not getting the chance to really show how smart they are. They both talk about how intelligence is something that anyone can have from college students to working class people to someone who just loves something enough to remember a lot about it and become intellectual about the subject. Intelligence has its way of creeping up on you when you least expect it to.
Professor Howard Gardner gave an Oral presentation in regards to the Five Minds of the Future.
Everyone has an opinion concerning what type of education is most useful. We all know that a college education is important in the competitive world we live in today. For instance, if you want a career in engineering, medicine, chemistry or law, a bachelor's degree or higher is mandatory. We often see people who have made it really big, and yet have little or no formal education. My opinion is, in order to get and keep a good paying job, you need both “street smarts” and “book smarts.” The combination of practical knowledge and explicit knowledge is the key to a successful career. Both types of knowledge have distinct advantages.
After high school, a choice that many students have to make is whether to go to college or not. There are many factors that go into one’s decision. There are pros and cons to going to college and also there are pros and cons for not going to college. But the decision that will give someone the better opportunity to have a more successful life is to go to college. The money that one will earn after getting a college degree will be more than the money a person will make without getting a college degree. As our society has continued to evolve, education has become the optimal route to professional success: pursuing a degree is the best way to receive training, to gain expertise in a given field, and even to guide you and help you make choices