AGREE TOTALLY
My wife, who is still learning to fly, was doing circuits with an instructor who was very pedantic about her bearings and turning points on a particular circuit. She was taken out by the CFI and he criticised her for making the circuit too big and looking at the DI instesd of the runway. Previously she had had the same critisism about putting carb heat on downwind when another instructor told her you always put it on at final. Then taking carb heat out, some have told her over the threshold some after landing...the story goes on and on.
I'm not saying which technique is correct and which is not - it doesn't matter half the time - but the fact remains that within a club different instructors not only give different procedures but are capable of chastising a pupil for not being 'right'. This can make life very confusing for the student.
We've seen here the arguments about carb heat but in the end it would be better to teach one option consistantly. Time when nearing the end of PPL training to explain to students the various options and arguments for these variations.
Perhaps instructors should sometimes listen to their pupils. When was the last time you asked a pupil about what part of training in your school had made life difficult/easier?