"2) Your knowledge and experience as a lifetime learner would stand you in poor stead as a teacher."

             If you were teaching graduate classe to adults at a university, the kinds of degrees that artbrooks seems to be talking about would be perfectly in order.

             But if you are teaching young children, the difficult art of teaching, and a knowledge of human development is more important. You are normally teaching American History, or State/Regional History, so an extensive knowledge of ancient Persia
wouldn't do you a lot of good.