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Book smart or street smart?

Which would you rather be? Why?

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    6 years ago

    Either is nothing without the other. I'd rather be 50/50 than a guru in either. If I had to pick I'd take street smart. I associate street smarts with more well rounded abilities I guess. Book smart people had to learn to be book smart. Everybody can be street smart... It depends on how often you are put in a position to apply common sense. I don't believe in needing to know why something happens for everything that happens. Sometimes I just need to know it happens. Street smart is remembering the important things, book smart people try to remember everything.

  • 6 years ago

    Book smart, definitely. Street smart is useless knowledge.

  • Lv 5
    6 years ago

    Book smart is the result of having a high paying career to higher a street smart driver that'll have your back to ensure his employment is secure.

  • 6 years ago

    U guys do no that street smart means knowledge outside of school write lol?

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Book smart because the streets scare me.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Smart enough to throw books at attackers.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    6 years ago

    BOOK SMART. Theoretical things are better than practical things.

  • Tink
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    I just don't want to be "Sesame Street" smart.

    Otherwise, I'm good.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Street smart. I'm a city kid, after all.

  • 6 years ago

    Both

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