My guess is that the college course was designed to stretch your
thinking processes, and the navy course was designed to teach you to do
tasks. Thinking, after all, isn't really important, eh?
Like many, I don't think I've ever had a problem with "thinking",
critical or otherwise. I certainly didn't learn to "think" while
attending civilian college courses ... mostly at night school after I
left the Navy. I was older than most of the students, having spent 9
years in the Navy, and was generally regarded as being "seasoned" and
more advanced in my "critical thinking" capabilities, both by my fellow
students and by the instructor.
Why do you seem to insist that there is only *one* path to education?
I don't. I simply believe educational methodology leads to different
paths, intellectually. I wouldn't expect the training for a cabinetmaker
to be the same as the training for a forester, even though both deal in
wood, as it were. I would expect a good cabinetmaker to know a great
deal about the properties of wood and joinery, but not necessarily much
about how trees are planted, maintained, grown, harvested, and I
wouldn't expect a forester to know about the intricacies of
cabinetmaking. The educational processes that lead to either vocation,
though, are valuable.
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