Book Smart vs Street Smart

[Kairi]

Which would you rather be?

The stereotype of a street smart person is someone who is intelligent and knows how to handle important situations in the streets but is not as well-educated academically. However, the stereotype of a book smart person is someone who is upper-class and well educated but less knowledgeable when it comes to handling important situations faced in bad neighborhoods and lower-class city areas.

 

[Dale]

Surely everyone would want to be Book Smart going by your defenition of it. I'd be an upper class citizen who was well educated, therefore likely leading into a good job which pays well and allows me to live in a decent neighbourhood where I wouldn't encounter any of the problems from not being Street Smart?

 

[Kingslayer]

When you're book smart, you can afford to live in the areas where you don't need to be street smart.

 

[PHX]

There is tons of smart people who struggle because they end up being "overqualified" for a job there for making it seem like you wasted your time, and sometimes a street smart person (which my definition of it is kind of different from yours) ends up finding a way to be successful. So it can't really be generalized as rich if your book smart poor if your street smart.