Whats more important: Booksmarts or Commonsense

[Guest THx11]

Common sense for sure. If you have no real life experience and just read about stuff in books then you are a gonner.

I am not the smartest peanut but I know alot about many things. Social Studies and some school subjects are not my strong points :).

[Harry]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by pbfrontmanvdp [/i]
[B]Trust me around where i live you need to have a high GPA and good SAT scores. My parents dont want either me or my brother to leave the state of NJ so were kinda limited here. Unless you have money and could afford the really expensive universities there out of the question as well. Therefor Ivy league schools were out of the question to begin with for my family. Anyway I barely even got into Rowan with a 4.2 GPA and a 1150 SAT score. They wanted an 1180 SAT score but when they saw my GPA, they took me in because of that. My bro...he isnt probably going to get into the college of his choice. Sure hes got a decent GPA, but his SAT scores suck. Hes only got a 1020 and most of the colleges were demanding more then that. I know its sad hes had a pretty good GPA this whole time but colleges are demanding more and more each and every year. He might get in because of swimming, but they still want him to have a better SAT score and GPA. Plus class rank has a factor as well. My GPA gave me class rank of 85 out of 511 students while my bros is around 300 out of 556 students. Thats one of the first things a college asks (or looks for in a transcript), so hes basically screwed there too.[/b][/quote]
I don't know about NJ but in Texas you can just go to a community college and transfer in to UT, or go to one of the satellites and transfer in.

[quote]As for community colleges being the same as Universities, thats somewhat understandable. Some of them are great like ive had to take a few summer course at a couple, but some of them were terrible as well. Its all just personal opinion.[/quote]
I'm just saying there's going to be little difference between your english class and his, assuming he's going to community college.

[quote]I never said that jobs higher you on your little degree...i personally could care less where you get the degree from. If a company does higher someone strictly on their degree, then their absolutely insane. I know you have to look at the total package, you would be stupid not too. But come on, use some common sense, you cant tell me that people with a degree from a regular college/university is better and more helpful then a degree from an Ivy league university. Trust me, that little degree does play an important factor. [/B][/QUOTE]
Depends what course they took. If someone was at Yale and did the classes, while another did the classes do internships, or even did a co-op program then yes the non-ivy leaguer is more useful.

[tattoi nobori]

Ideally, I guess a good mix of both... But I'd settle for a terabit ethernet connection jacked into my pre-frontal cortex, with the other end going through a time warp, and plugging into the 'net fifty years from now. Then I'd just need to get some common sense! ?_?

[AutoKill]

commonsence is more importaint. Any one can read a book and learn somthing. Some people can learn it faster then others. Eather way, every one can learn from the book. Commonsence isent inside a book. If their was every blonde girl in ameirca would have it on their night stand.:blulaugh:
I would have to say i value a person more on their commonsence then their book smarts.
A genus can read a book cover to cover, know everything about history and science. But when it comes to turning on a toster. He will fail do to the lack of commensence he has to plug the toster in.

[XC SpydeR]

[COLOR=blue][I]Ok i believe that both are required to have a succesful future. See, if you want a good job and make a pretty decent amount of money, you need to have in most cases, a college degree! In order to obtain this you need to be pretty well off with your book smarts, and you need to go to school *makes an awkward face*. But, in the real world, commonsense is greatly need. Otherwise, people are going to calling you a retard for the rest of your life. *cough- *hint hint*[/I][/COLOR]

[pbfrontmanvdp]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by DFantasy [/i]
[B][COLOR=blue][I] Otherwise, people are going to calling you a retard for the rest of your life. *cough- *hint hint*[/I][/COLOR] [/B][/QUOTE]

LoL i get that a lot as well. People sometimes call me the "dumbest-smart kid". Like ive done maybe to things really stupid at college that probably a two year old could have done. Most of the time i show them up and have to point things out to them. Oh well ill stick with the nickname they gave me.

[Drix D'Zanth]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by AutoKill [/i]
[B] But when it comes to turning on a toster. He will fail do to the lack of commensence he has to plug the toster in. [/B][/QUOTE]

I dare you to find anyone that can give me the theory of relativity and fail to plug a toaster in. I just thought the severe lack of common sense in your entire post was funny. Good joke! I love the blond stuff. I'm blond, though, so I don't get it .... in reality.

[ZytaZiouZ]

I think that neither is more important. Both are important. If you only have commen sense, you can't really succede in school and college as well as others, but if you only booksmart, you may end up being top of your class, but not even know what you want to do in life. I know someone who wants to do something that I know they are not that good at, but they like the subject. I can't say too much for certain reasons, but this person is very booksmart, but sometimes can't buckle their own seatbelt.

[Mitch]

[size=1] As with many other things, it's best to have a nice mix of both. Common sense in itself is in some cases derived from past things learned from booksmarts...while booksmarts in itself in some cases is derived from past things learned by common sense.

It's better to have common sense obviously...

I hate learning all of these meaningless facts and meaningless devices in school. I already know what I want to do. Anything that involves writing.

In the end nearly all the crap you learn in school up to high school is useless. I'm hoping it's different in college, though, where you actually seem to be able to learn what you want instead of some pointless crap you will only use for that class and in some other occasions.[/size]

[PiroMunkie]

[size=1]Common sense is the better of the two.

Book smarts is useful to have along, but really you cannot have any book smarts without common sense.

And what [i]is[/i] book smarts? "Wow! I have a 4.23 GPA!" Holy moly! You have ability to memorize given information and spew it back out within a standardized system! Do not worry, you will more or less forget it all by next year.

Some of the supposed "smartest students" (as in those with high GPA's) are honestly some of the most ignorant people I know.

When students take the SAT and ACT, the colleges are not looking for how many you got informationally correct. There is no possible way that they could prove that the person taking the test actually [i]knew[/i] what they were doing when it comes to knowing the answer right off hand by actually being "book smart" (which I believe is a rare, rare case). All those colleges care about is how many you got correct in the given amount of time. How well were you able to organize and manage your time. Did you finish the entire test, or are some parts empty?

All a person has to know how to do is simplify. For example, multiple choice answers. Sure, there are those you immediately know the answer to, but then there are those in which other answers seem possible. [i]They put those possibilities in there on purpose.[/i] You have to use [i]common sense[/i] to go through the process of elimination. They do not want you to go in and take that test studying only facts and such -- for all you know they will test you on something entirely different --, they want you to go in there with the common sense and reasoning to know how to work those problems. The tests already give you the information you need to know, all you have to do is apply it.[/size]

[Jamvis]

Both are equally inportant. You could be dumb as a rock but you would know not to touch a stove. You could also be knowledgable and not know when you have aggrivated a situation that you could have easily avoided. Have both. Without them we would be lost as the blind leading the blind :).

[Xaru Silverfire]

I would say [b]common sence[/b] is the most important. Common sence is like "Which shap is smaller?". I would say [b]brainpower[/b] or [b]IQ[/b] Is what people normally mistake as "Common sence"( I believe piromonkey meant if people are truly "Smart." Not just memorize a bunch of stuff.) With brainpower people are actually smart. They have a high IQ and everything. Normally when you take a test you use information in which you have [b]memorized[/b]. Memorized information usually is forgotton. [b]Brainpower[/b] on the other hand stays with you for your whole life. (or almost)

[Dagger]

To answer this question, I think we need to mark the distinction between book smarts and true intelligence. If by book smarts, you mean the ability to recite obscure historical facts and perform mathematical calculations faster than the average Joe, I would have to say that common sense is more important.

True intelligence is being able to uncover the significance of those seemingly random facts and annoying word problems. An intelligent person may have an expansive vocabulary, but he or she focuses on the content of books, rather than how many difficult words he or she can spell correctly.

I guess my vote goes to common sense, since the phrase book smarts implies a certain lack of actual "smarts."

~Dagger~