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I live on the south side of Chicago. Believe me here you definitely need both!

....need both to relate

....but, facts over emotions 

I've met people with very little education, but had common sense and they did pretty well in life. I have also met people with extensive educations that never really had a lot of success. But they are both very important to have. Street smarts isn't always the same thing as common sense, and common sense isn't very common.

You should have both. if you are traveling through a big city.And turn down a bad street.Academics aren't going to help very much.DON

Hell yes, you will be better off with both.

You definitely need BOTH academic knowledge and street smarts.
Just plain common sense is the best .... and you don't get that
from books.

Education is the key to everything. Education comes in many forms. We use what we learn in schools to help navigate our way through life. We use what we learn on the streets to become wise in matters of survival.

I have heard over the years many people complain because they are cold or hungry and know from first hand experience they have no idea in the world. When you are living in a position where you do not know where or when you might get your next meal or you are so cold you do not know you will wake again when you go to sleep. That is certainly an education.

A scholar with a university degree who looks down his nose at an aboriginal in a loin cloth living in the desert with a spear might take a different view if he were to find himself in the desert in the same position. Education is relative to your environment. The key is to have a balance and the environment in which you live dictates much. However if you gain an education from schools you have many more appealing options than if you are just street wise. You can gain much more experience with knowledge as you then have a broader view.

Well yes one should street sense is lessons we have learned the hard way unfortuntely and one also needs to use good common sense and courtesy.

both useful, you need knowledge in order to survive, any kind is useful

For sure ..once you have been a thug in the streets ,dissociated to become man of the house, Academiclly inclined or thrust as director of head office affairs...one tends to see that You definitely need BOTH, Academic Knowledge and Street Smarts...more so academic knowledge caring the greater ballance

You need both,,one gives you the common sense and the other gives you the knowledge to understand and use common sense..>>>>>>><<<<<<<<..

knowledge is just knowledge, without experience and wisdom to guide you you are not better off at all.

A cesspool is not aware of itself, it just accumulates more bacteria. Accumulation is never divine.

Life experience is an excellent platform for academia. Many college/universities grant credit for street/life.

I know a host of good people who lack one or the other. Certainly some excel no matter what background. Still, the best product often comes from those with both disciplines. Neither should be discounted.

you can only get around in the world with an education.

If in reality one loves the got education, the street will be the next for a lot of porposes that is called, also, realization. The same way, many people coming from the streets culture becomes great writers in many fields realizing, after, they own graduations.
In reality we got one with the other and is practically impossible to dissociate one from another. For the ones that the "street graduation" is absent, the title 'glass-of-milk' is the first and redundant qualification :) But, for sure, the lack of the street experience will be a strong amputated aspect that will mark a person as a lack of experience-knowledge: un-habil.