Who is smart?

To me, everyone is smart in their own personal way. A lot of the time, school glamorizes being "book smart". Not being "book smart" doesn't make you not smart, or dumb. Someone who isn't great at school might be great in a sport or at performing plays. Being sports literate or play literate is being smart. In school, those types of literacies and many others aren't touched on very much or even seen as important. Even for good athletes they say school is first, hence student athlete. School is not a place where everyone can learn to their best ability. Not everyone is a factory model and can learn in setting as such. Lots of people think being able to read a book is being literate or smart, which it is, but its not the only form of literacy. Since schools are set in these ways, to glamorize reading and writing, it alienates certain people. Just because a kid isn't superb at reading or writing, doesn't mean they aren't smart, but a lot of times kids get that kind of vibe. This type of factory learning teaches kids to conform to society and not transform it. In school, learning should be more relaxed and not so much like a factory. In doing so, it would make more kids realize that they aren't dumb, but yet they are smart. Being reading or writing literate or not doesn't decide if your smart or not. Reading and writing literacy can make someone smart, but it cant make someone dumb. Just because you aren't very good at something doesn't make you dumb, after all we are ALL smart in our own ways!:)