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In his article titled Blue-Collar Brilliance Mike Rose, a professor at UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, states that "Although writers and scholars have often looked at the working class, they have generally focused on the values such workers exhibit rather than on the thought their work requires-a subtle but persuasive omission."  In making this comment, Mike Rose urges us to look at blue collar jobs from within and appreciate blue collar workers, for their job is just as cognitive as white collar jobs. In other words he believes that blue collar workers are constantly being overlooked and underestimated. The essence of Mike Rose's argument is that there is a variety of skills involve in blue collar jobs and although those workers didn't receive the highest education, there is a certain intelligence and skill required to perform blue collar jobs.