Training is training. Either the material makes sense to a student, or it doesn't. One of my furloughed friends makes a great point, "If you put a banana chip on the gear lever when you need it down, a monkey can put it down for you, but the monkey doesn't understand how the gear works". I don't care if you do your training at NASA or Joe Bob's barnstormer school, if you can correllate your knowledge, you're better off than the Astronaut who rote learned his material.