The Watchtower and Awake magazines have been helping individuals receive a G.E.D
or high school diploma. Where did you learn the art of public speaking?
That "art" has since been utterly useless to me. However, if I'd needed it, I could have learned it elsewhere, and much, much better, along with critical thinking skills, logic, etc.
Discipline and study were always the primary foundations of the organizations apart from
the field ministry.
I don't think they understand what discipline truly means. True discipline comes through understanding Self, not through unthinking rigidity. And study? Their methods of "study" don't exactly transfer very well at all to the real world. In fact, it makes learning real study practices much more difficult.
It is saddening to see the lack of honesty some have toward not giving the Society credit were credit is due.
You're right. I should give the Society credit for teaching me how to drop key words into sentences and phrases in order to ellicit emotional responses from people. Oh yeah, that's called manipulation. And don't talk to me about "lack of honesty".