I am a terrible student. Those who know me ask me why. They see I have a potential of being the best student of class. Why the fuck I should want to be? This educational model is outdated and memorizing ten species of each family is of no use. I save time instead of preparing for a test, after which all useless knowledge is forgotten. I usually say our education model tests the memory, not the skills.
I am angry about the fact, that having 8 tests weekly just empowers learning for tests a day ahead and forgetting all things afterwards. There is no room for proper learning and saving information into permanent or at least long-term memory. Our educ model doesn't support it (my last article is about learning, by the way).

What we can say with confidence is that it is not a good idea to try to relate academic performance and intelligence, since the correlation is not too reliable and probably it never will be.

This is what I deal with on almost daily basis. It is not about people considering me to be stupid. None who knows me does that. But people with academic degrees think of themselves as if they were intelligent. The degree clearly increases their confidence, even though everyone knows they have no talent. The bigges issue on that is that they are arrogant and hard to deal with, clearly because of the degree.

Have a nice day!