I love the fact that certain persons here are so quick to blame the instruction, and are totally overlooking the human factors element.
1) Student pilots are, on the whole, operating at the limits of mental capacity (especially helicopter students)
2) Student pilots, at ATC controlled airfields, are told to do what ATC tells them.
Maybe certain ATCO's who have been so quick to criticise should realise that the flying world is not solely populated by professional pilots who fly into the one and only place that said ATCO's have probably ever worked.
There's a bigger world out there guys - think out of the box for a change.