Doing and Thinking: Integrating Training and Education for the Best Outcomes : Joint Forces Staff College , December 1 , 2022
December 1, 2022
Joint Forces Staff College
Doing and Thinking: Integrating Training and Education for the Best Outcomes : Joint Forces Staff College , December 1 , 2022
December 1, 2022
Joint Forces Staff College
From the article: “Training and the military are almost synonymous. Militaries have emphasized training since fighting began thousands of years ago. It is right to recognize there is a difference between training and education in the military, which requires understanding the military purposes and distinctions for each.[1] Of course, there has been, in modern times, consistent debate about the distinction between training and education in the military. While it seems there is a great divide between the two camps, it is more often a case about nuance. To that nuance, what is less considered and infrequently discussed is the time at which education becomes relevant, both in terms of individual development and in the greater conversation of military advancement. Specific to the U.S. military, education seems to date to the beginning of the U.S. Revolutionary War in 1778. The nation’s founding father, George Washington, directed his Army chaplains, religious guides embedded in the ranks, to teach the soldiers to read.[2] Perhaps surprisingly, he made the order, not to improve their performance as a soldier, but to improve their quality of life. Although he likely recognized that literacy would improve their perspectives, their attitudes, and therefore, he seemed to suggest, literacy would also improve soldiers’ ability to perform their duties. In all the huffier and puffier, the real debate—the nuance of the debate about training versus education—comes down to the purposes to define and apply them appropriately.”
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