787 Dignitaries Abound

Nico and the Minister quickly got deep into a conversation about the relative differences in training methods between humans and the Koleska. The two were somewhat similar, but the Koleska were much more hands-on learners than the humans were, so the amount of book knowledge that they gathered was limited, and instead, they practiced everything at every level of learning. 

That way was actually quite compatible with the Mecha training program, where it was assumed that you would have already used the book learning programs to gather all the basic knowledge that you needed for the background to begin to learn Piloting.