Is there anyone on the GB who has more than a high school certificate?

by Lady Lee 64 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  Lady Lee

  Some time this week I will be interviewed by a couple of university students doing a project on Jehovahs' Witnesses. The one I spoke to knows very little about them.

  It will be an interview on my personal experience as a JW but from her initial phone call we saw that my answers easily led to more questions. She doesn't realize she is talking about a cult but began to get the idea that the WTS has a lot of control over the lives of JWs.

  So the education thing came up and I explained how education beyond high school was not encouraged and even though they give lip service to it post-secondary education is still not highly recommended.

  Which got me to thinking. How many of the GB have an education beyond high school? How many even finished high school considering what the world was like in the 40's and 50s when many of the GB would have been of the right age?

  Barb? any Bethelites? anyone have an idea?
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  Farkel

  Do any of them even HAVE a High School Certificate, Lee?

  Farkel
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  The Almighty Homer

  The likelihood of that is not very good , most of the GB today were indoctrinated the same way men in their age group were, that being that higher

  education was deemed fruitfully pointless being that they were so close to the end of this system of things.

  The words college or university degree are not associated with the GB or the other middle management drones such as DO, CO, PO or Congregational elders.

  Thats the biggest indirect problem with JWS they were started by an individual who was not well educated, perhaps not to his fault being the era

  which he lived , but his ignorance certainly created the power and the finances to create this enormous publishing corporation, which further on

  other men wanted to attach themselves to and the rest of course is history.
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  dissed

  The Al Homie

  The worst CO I ever had was a Dr.

  He actually taught veternarian medecine in Colorado
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  The Almighty Homer

  The Al Homie

  The worst CO I ever had was a Dr.

  He actually taught veterinarian medicine in Colorado

  There are the unusual ones, duly noted, but speaking in broad terms of higher education as a selective group I don't think so.

  I corrected your spelling I hope you don't mind dissed .
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  Lady Lee

  Doug I think you may be right.

  I think it was said that Franz had a better education than most on the GB. Don't know about Knorr and I don't have my book. And though it was a while back Rutherford had enough university to become a lawyer.

  I definitely think that the men who are on the board grew up in a time where only the wealthy went to university.

  But these are journalism students; the people of the future who might be willing to expose the WTS for what it is. I could use some FACTS if there are any.
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  blondie

  There are Bethelites that have been medical doctors, dentists, engineers, lawyers.
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  asilentone

  Frederick Franz, but he is dead, good question though.
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  shamus100

  Yes - there are some educated ones. They came in AFTER.

  From my experience - most young ones dropped out of high-school. Sad, really.
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  blondie

  What about Judah ben Schroeder who is taking higher education to be a lawyer. That is an "after" experience.