Read or Watch the speech "Kenyon College Commencement Speech" (https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/DFWKenyonAddress2005.pdf and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYGaXzJGVAQ.
Then write an essay about the above speech.
In this essay, you should discuss the following:
• How does Wallace's argument ("Kenyon Commencement Speech") about the value of the knowledge acquired in college compare with Mike Rose's discussion ("Blue-Collar Brilliance") of the knowledge acquired on the job in blue-collar occupations?
• What are the differences between the two?
• What are the similarities?
• Which do you agree with most? Why?