sNr - actually, I did learn to fly on Cessnas (after having done a little bit of gliding - not with the ATC!!).
At the Bedfordshire Air Centre we used brand-new Cessna 150s and were taught extremely well. I don't recall being taught to 'pick up a wing with rudder' - but I was taught spin entry and recovery and always to be careful with the rudder at the stall, using it only to maintain balance by keeping the ball in the middle. 'Step on the ball', Mr Singh used to exhort me!
The technique described by sNr is 100% spot on; it is what I was taught and is what I teach others on both little spamcans and great big 4-jets!