IS being smart good? the debate ensues  

i am smart...in a sense. not in the sense that yale and harvard are going to war for me, but in a sense that i know facts. things like physics history, math books, and random trivial shiit. is this kind of smartness good or just a hinderance?
so far all it has gotten me is bruises and detentions when i was in school.
the only good i found in the past was proving a teacher wrong. we had a bet if i won, she would get me this energy drink i liked and if she won i would say i was wrong to the class and publically apologize to her. military pay-grades was the subject. she said that they were all different, while i said they were the same. i won.