> For officers, much of their training is done on the ship via self study in their spare time instead of in a classroom The problem here isn't "instead of in a

> For officers, much of their training is done on the ship via self study in their spare time instead of in a classroom The problem here isn't "instead of in a classroom", it's "self study in their spare time" instead of "learning by doing the job under the supervision of more experienced people". The way I learned to drive ships was by driving ships under the supervision of more experienced ship drivers. Sure, there was some classroom preparation before that, but the biggest value add was the supervised hands-on time.