guys I was just relaying hear-say, I know the guy has a stellar reputation and for all I know he has more than earned it and is much better than many other instructors out there, I simply made the point that low hour pilots need to do their homework to find the best path to their instrument rating, and that courses and instructors geared towards high hour pilots might not be that.
For low hour pilots IMHO it's much more important to have someone next to them who has the patience and understanding to relay their real world IFR experiences, even if that takes a little longer, rather than getting someone to test standard as quickly as possible.
Good points in this thread about getting it right, getting comfortable with your IFR skills before you throw yourself into weather, and may I remark that a high pressure teaching environment to build skills in the short term to pass a somewhat artifical testing situation has some issues in the long term, at least for some types of pilots..