Patton on mission command -- or not?

When I first read the passage below, I thought Patton was
writing about mission
command. But as I typed this in, I began to wonder if he simply is
prescribing rote learning of a military repertoire. What think you?

From the
same 1932 paper I quoted the other day:

The successful use of such [small, mobile, self-contained]
units will depend on giving great initiative to all leaders in actual command of men. 

. . . Under such circumstances the solution of the command
problem would seem to rest in using the method called by the British: "The
Nelsonian Method," or by our Navy, the method of "Indoctrinated initiative."

This system is based on the belief that the: "Best is the
enemy of the Good." That a simple mediocre solution applied instantly is better
than a perfect one which is late or complicated.

Among leaders of whatever rank there are three types: 10 percent
Genius;  80 percent Average; and 10 percent Fools. The
average group is the critical element in battle. It is better to give such men
several simple alternative solution which, by repeated practice, they can
independently apply than it is to attempt to think for them via the ever
fallible means of signal communications."