Ouch ! ! !
That brings back some memories of life as a 'stude'. Remember 'Stude for a job' ?
That was not politically correct, empathetic, touch feely positively motivating instruction. It's just how I remember it. However . . . it was supposed to teach you to fly and toughen you up mentally. I got through the course with a lot of damned hard work and grief - most of my coursemates got chopped. I don't have any complaints about the way they did things. Moreover, I don't suppose that the new way of doing things would gave graduated any more pilots quite frankly.
One of the things I remember is that the instructors were a hard bunch but they really did care about you passing the course and at times they were rght up there with you. Mine pulled the stops for me. Charm was not one of their teaching techniques!
Interested to see what other guys think about this. Yes, in those days it was only guys !