I was a seminarian in the early 70s. The “Spirit of Vatican II” permeated our formation and we were the worse off for it. I was a novice, and our Novice Master was big into Marriage Encounter, which was nice, except that this was his first stint as Novice Master and he decided to do a “Marriage Encounter”-flavored Novitiate. To this day, I wish I’d had a more traditional Novitiate year.
Oh, BTW: our Novice Master eventually left the priesthood and got married...sigh.
Between Vatican II and JPII/Reagan we were really kind of lost.