Moses recoiled from hands-on administrative training despite advocating government expertise.

Evidence

But once he became part of the Training School, it didn’t take Moses long to decide that the system of the future wasn’t going to be his future. In the field of public administration, the Training School was unique in its down-to-earth practicality. Pupils not only were put through intensive reading courses on the theory of budget making, accountancy, scientific management, chart making and the use of forms, summaries and statements, but also spent long days in city offices watching budgets actually being made up and did their scientific management homework sitting in city offices trying to figure out ways to eliminate unnecessary personnel and analyzing projects the city was undertaking, to see if they were really needed. They did the legwork for the Bureau members who were heading the investigations which would result in exposure of corruption or waste in city government. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 267