It’s Mailbag Monday!
That’s when I answer your questions about English.
Why do we call it “Mailbag Monday”?
Because in the old days, fans of radio and TV shows wrote their questions in letters and the postman delivered the letters in a mailbag.
SMART OR CLEVER?
An Atomic Homework reader asks, “What’s the difference between ‘smart’ and ‘clever’?”
Did you see the movie Oppenheimer?
It’s the story of the atomic bomb.
And two of the film’s characters, Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer, show us the difference between smart and clever.
Both men were obviously smart.
But only one was clever.
In one scene, we see Einstein working.
He’s standing by a pond and simply thinking.
His hair is a mess. And his shoelaces are probably untied.
Oppenheimer, meanwhile, was trusted with a budget in the billions (in today’s dollars), managed thousands of people, built a secret city and delivered the world’s first atomic weapon.
Oppenheimer was clever.
He got things done.
Yeh, I agree with you Ryan, but not at all!
In fact, I just listen at a podcast called ” It’s ok to disagree ?”,and it seems it’s ok, that’s a sign of democracy if it expressed in a corect way
Now on our topic I think this smart street guy is rather a kind of magician, a kind of tricker, yes , in a good way but not so intelligent..
When we talk about Enstein, his resurches needed a so big mental energy that he was forced to miss the other non important aspects of the life as his hair, his shoelaces, he forgot where he put his glasses…He was so absorbed with this big relativity”s theory ,he priorities it and didn’t care all the other things.
On his side, Oppenhimer was clever? He only did a go to the things ..look at their verbs:
I think/ I make, I do
clever, no smart/ smart rather than clever
My opinion!
I also want to have a conclusion:
You rarely find a person to be clever plus street smart plus book smart plus..
Ussualy only one!
But I have to admit both clever and smart are important as the same time