Self-reflection after a lection

Q 

I am not sure how uniform the single communities are organized, but from what I experienced, everyone at the end of a lection has to do something like a "self-reflection" regarding what was discussed before.

Is it an established concept in other communities?

I realized at some point, that older members of SCJ, which attented "beginner lections" gave a self-reflection which was based on what they heard only in this lection. New members, who are not aware of being in SCJ and what this is all about, connect their new knowledge to what they learned in previous lections.

My conclusion is, the older members pretend to be almost on the same level as the new members, even though they could explain even more. They conceal everything which goes deeper into the ideology.

My question now is: Did you observe similar things when you were in SCJ? Why are the old members there? To be mannequins, so the classes are not that empty? Do they "enjoy" to repeat beginner-topics or are they somehow called to do so by the leaders of the communities?

I read in atleast one community has a list of counting missionaries, where they somehow record how many people you brought to SCJ. Is this connected to attending beginner-classes as a fullmember, so you create a scenery where it is more likely that new members getting more and more involved?

A

After a lesson we had time to copy the notes from the whiteboard and probably pray. Afterwards there was time for reflection in small groups. There a SCJ teacher would ask questions (to new and hidden old members). New members will of course connect the content of the lesson to their current knowledge, while old members know exactly which answers are expected from SCJ-perspective.
The old members are there to guide the new ones, and collect informations about them. If half of the students are from SCJ and the other ones don't know about it, they influence the group dynamic. If I'm the only one in a group that disagrees with something, I easily doubt myself, especially if the other ones are perfect students that know every answer.
For example we read Bibleverses aloud in the lessons. I think because there were old students who really read the verses aloud, the new ones followed, that's how it works.

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