TurboJ
I totaly agree with you. You should not be teaching PPL students this. Go and spend sometime with bush pilots, and I mean real bush pilots that have worked the south american jungles/mountains or Alaska. You will soon learn you and what the aircraft can and can't do.
Not once did I say I wing it, and I have not met a bush pilot that wings it either. I do not proclaim to be a bush pilot but I do know 2 very good bush pilots that have taught me a few things.
As for getting a PA28 in and out of tight places, like I said you really need to know the aircraft, A PA28 180 I know well enough to get into and out of some very tight strips on maximum weight. And I was taught this by the 2 bush pilots that I know.