To believe a degree does not make one clever...

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I have a standard degree from a rather prestigious uni (this ain't no stealth boast btw!) and I still feel I am not half as intelligent as many i meet. People assume I will be, because of said degree.

I would like some sort of a career, possibly in teaching, but fear I am no longer clever enough (baby brain/ too much drink and drugs as a wayward teen etc etc )

When I speak of this I often get the answer, "But you have a degree..."

My degree was pretty easy and I did the bare minimum to get by. It doesn't fill me with confidence at all about my levels of intelligence :/

"Obviously I can't comment for others, but round us it's almost impossible to get on a PGCE course if you've not done some work in a school to gain experience"

The PGCE that I dropped out of only required 2 weeks of experience. Frankly its nowhere near enough. Prehaps a lot depends on what the PGCE is in. If you have a physics or a maths degree then you are grabbed manically whether you have the skills to be a teacher or not.

On the contrary compos, I have a great deal of difficulty in putting myself forward in real life. But this is the wonder of the anonymity of the internet - we can express ourselves differently.

I'm guessing you might not be quite so quick to mock somebody to their face in real life?