Lindquist blog #5

The article, "Class Ethos and the Polirics of Inquiry" brought up happy memories for me. I remember  having conversations with Dad about being "book smart" or "street smart", which is precisely the question Lindquist posed to one of her 'subjects' she used from the bar research. She asked what it meant to be learned from an institution (book smart through a university) versus through one's experience (street smarts). This made me laugh because when I went back to school, Dad remarked that I will now have a well rounded education. I was confused and said, "I never lived on the street". He just laughed and said I had lived in enough lower income neighborhoods in a variety of states around the US. Another quote that was typical of my blue collar (business owner) dad was the one about forgetting about what you learned in school because now you've got to live in the real world. He concluded saying he never worried about me because I was always aware of the people and things around me and I could take care of myself.