She could have, you know, kept her word? She was oh so scrupulous about the Three Oaths when Rand asked her to help save lives from the Shaido, whose atrocities she had witnessed first hand, but at the same time, she is living in violation of the First Oath. The justification you offer is that she wanted power, and saw that lying was the only way to gain that power at her preferred pace, so she was "forced" into the lie. Nynaeve's & Elayne's total accomplishments in T'A'R blow hers out of the water, and they figured things out through effort and practice and persistance. Without breaking any promises. They don't lie to their for their own interest in gaining power, but in order to make those same teachers more willing to support Rand. Egwene sells out Rand to ingratiate herself with people she herself lies to. Egwene can lie about her status and profession and accepting limits on their teaching, but Rand is not allowed to retain any privacy about his personal medical issues, so there's hypocrisy too.
No, it began with them being put in a position where Siuan gave them no choice but to pretend, while at the same time, arranging things so they'd take all the blame. They pretended with Moiraine's pragmatic passive approval in Tear, because it was socially necessary. There was no need for her to lie to impress Amys in T'A'R.


Yes, that was my point. Nynaeve is good because she wants to be good. Egwene is motivated by consequences to herself, rather than objective or absolute standards of right or wrong. Terms like "sociopath" often come up in discussions of such people.
Even in the midst of her submersion in Aiel culture, she subtly demonstrated that she didn't really get it. Look at LoC when she breaks up a street fight, demanding that the individuals involved fight fair, one book after Melaine sneers at accusations that she does not fight fair, claiming that in a fight, "rules...are for children." Egewene has learned enough through observation to predict certain reactions to particular situations or circumstances, but there is no real grasp of Aiel ways on her part. You can't blame them for her. It's like preaching individual responsibility and self-sufficiency to a warped kid, who interprets that to mean he can do whatever he wants or can get away with.
Actually, it was Siuan and Moiraine, her Aes Sedai mentrices, who imparted that bit of "wisdom" to her. She used that rationalization to categorize the Aiel, even though that is not true. The Aes Sedai and Egwene focus on the first clause in that aphorism, while the Aiel focus on the latter part, that obligations must be met, not bought off when violated.
No, it isn't.

Because she didn't get the system. In the Three Fold Land, where life is so harsh and dangerous, you can't waste resources on people you can't rely on, and you can't afford to trust anyone who is not absolutely trustworthy. That's why upholding commitments is so important to them, and why ji'e'toh does not make allowances for excuses.

That was also the crux of the tension between the Wise Ones and Egwene immediately after her summons to Salidar, they got a hint that she wasn't playing straight with them so they confronted her to make sure she understood the importance of properly balancing obligations (i.e. to her teachers & to the Tower). She appeared to articulate it properly, which is why Sorilea was all "You see, she gets it," and then she admits her lies, proving that she never got it at all.

But I don't, which is why I am justified in total hatred of her. A real person, you have to keep giving chances to, because he could change. Egwene can't, won't and didn't. I was right. QED.
Most of those people being women who channel saidar and thus have made a practice of surrendering to something they cannot fight. There is no fighting Egwene's lust for power, so most women around her roll with it.
Yep. Also note that the good ones had as little to do with the Tower as an institution as possible. Moiraine, Cadsuane & Nynaeve were all sisters who had to be dragged back kicking and screaming when needed for some other crisis. Like the Amyrlin's authority is being questioned, because she isn't interfering with people who are busy with trivial crap like finding or helping the indispensible individual responsible for saving the world from the Dark One. Note that this nonsense is the first thing we see Siuan doing, carping to Moiraine that her efforts to find the person who will save the world are causing political difficulties for Siuan. Then Egwene does the exact same thing to Nynaeve once she has the whole Tower under her control. Gee, I wonder where that notion came from...

Note too, that Nynaeve got the upper hand on Siuan and mistrusted her on principle, even when she was capable of accepting Siuan's advise when it was good. But she was not influenced by her and did not pattern her behavior after Siuan. Egwene, on the other hand...

It's not about who she's exposed to, it's about what lessons she chooses to learn from those people. Nynaeve is around a lot of the same people, but takes the best things instead of the worst, or wrongly understanding them.