book smart
being able to succeed scholastically, and not necessarily in the real world.
sure she’s book smart, but she can’t cook a potato!
a term used by d-students to rationalize their academic failings.
i might be a sociology major with a 1.5 gpa, but that just means i’m not book smart!
the general definition of book smart is someone who is intelligent and very well educated academically. however, the term is usually used to contrast and compare with another term known as “street smart”.
the stereotype of a book smart person is someone who is upper-cl-ss and well educated but less knowledgeable when it comes to handling important situations faced in bad neighborhoods and lower-cl-ss city areas (a.k.a. the streets). however, 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.
the more extreme and negative stereotypes are that book smart people are naive, easily manipulated, and have bad judgment in bad situations, while street smart people are unintelligent and incapable of achieving a higher education.
both stereotypes aren’t always true and any semblance of them are only due to different lifestyles and experiences.
josh: are you sure me and jason will get along? jason is street smart and i’m book smart. we will probably be very different from each other.
mike: nah, don’t worry. jason may be street smart but he is also book smart. i’m sure you two will have a lot in common.
to excel with academia, and suck with real life.
a book smart professor was h-t by a bus. brilliant on paper, dull in life.
a common characterization used by people who are uneducated to describe and feel superior to people who are, themselves, actually educated.
“well, sure he’s all book smart, but can he change an oil filter?”
1. a very smart person who bases his or her arguments on facts from books
2. to have brains
1. wow that girl in the far back corner is a booksmart.
2. that guy has booksmarts
brains smart books arguments
someone who is, at the very least, intelligent enough to not live on the street.
people with street smarts hate people with book smarts because they are envious of their superior intellect.
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