In advance my apologies for not being clear.
I meant that usually student pilot's comment is not 100% true but slightly worse than what they describe. Reason for that is a general embarasment to admit it took a longer training or it cost them more than they were quoted to get their licence/rating/etc.
On the ohter hand i got to say that at Stapleford too you can get some very good instructor particularly for PPL and CPL
once again
Kind regards
PF