I'm Street Smart

There are different types of intelligence. Like Bailey said there's "book-smart" which is what we're taught in school. At school they tell you that your intelligence is based off of your book-smarts, which is basically your ability to read a text, gather the information, memorize the information and then be able to rewrite the information like on a test or an essay/paper. The problem with this is that not all kids can learn in that way, they cant just read a few paragraphs and fully understand the material. 

Schools rarely base intelligence off of "street-smarts", which is more common sense and learning things that you don't learn in school and being prepared for the potential dangers in society. For example, knowing how to get anywhere in your city with out a map and knowing what streets are more dangerous than others. 

Both of those type of "smarts" show intelligence, but the school system only focuses on how well you can memorize things and I think that's unfair, especially for the kids who don't have as many opportunities to learn how to memorize. Their whole lives they became A students on the street and the SAT's don't test that.