Dude, I don't care about your rather awkward bragging about your Scottish school grades. I hail from Germany and made my degrees at a German university with a strict and wide-ranging curriculum.
But it doesn't matter if you're at a German, Scottish or American school: It's always a place were you actually learn only basics which are often outdated by modern academic standards. Little example: Many history books are still painting greek and roman temples as boring white halls, while they were in fact quite colourful. But the technique that allows to find even littlest traces of old paints is new.
School education gives you some ideas about the world and teaches you ways to aquire new knowledge. It's a curriculum about things you should have heard about to be counted as a well informed modern day member of society, nothing more and nothing less. If there's a place where you may bitch about rote learning, it's your everyday school - but not the university.
Now I know why you believe you passed as a philosopher - because you got some neat grades at school. But sorry, you just heard something about philosophy at school. Maybe Plato's Cave and Theseus' ship - but you clearly have no idea how to implement it. You will now bitch about my "German finickiness", but I couldn't care even less. This is something the most graduates would tell you.
I mean, you still think arithmetics ist the main part of mathematics - nothing could be farther from the truth.
Edit: Aut really has a boner for his meaningless IQ-tests, hasn't he?