LOL no. Though i always felt having the time to think and redo while preparing something did always help. English department teachers did the debating stuff. I was more into personal development, lol, perhaps because i realized how much i could have used some of it when i myself was young. Confidence builders. Feeling of inferiority are among the worst. Understandings. Emotional stability. Like so many others i was all over the place at times. As union rep. in battles with principals though i was able to prepare cases well. So see a bit what what you are getting at, though obviously some of that post was as well as being serious was a bit of tongue in cheek too.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”