Quote Originally Posted by Ulenspiegel View Post
JMA wrote:

IIRC von Schell was there as student, his instructors recognized his qualities and hard earned practical experience and allowed him to give lectures. This is dicussed in "Command Culture" from Joerg Muth.
Such discussion always takes place on such courses where students draw on the experiences of others. With the arrogance of today's youth probably less likely to happen these days though, sadly.

The lectures in the Von Schell book were however (I quote):
Most of the lectures contained in this volume were delivered either to the students of the Advanced and Company Officers' Classes or to the officers of the 29th Infantry.