I spent the last three years of my career teaching at CGSC. I loved teaching, but the overall experience was like a bad nightmare. Fully a quarter of the students had no business being officers, much less field grades. Even most of my bright ones couldn't write or reason their way out of paper bags. Such skills had never been taught or required of them. They were shockingly ill-informed about history, philosophy, science, anything really. Aside from the basics of how to successfully perform whatever jobs they'd had in the Army, their knowledge base seemed to consist of an accumulation of Time Magazine articles or, for the top 20 percent, Fortune or The Atlantic.
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