As my esteemed colleague BEagle pointed out in his post though, a "real spin" is a condition which will continue in a metastable fashion unless active control inputs are made to recover. This recovery is not really intuitive, and is the reason why (IMHO) it's absolutely necessary that this training be included as part of basic pilot training. Several posters in this thread(myself included) have related stories about how they would be dead now (instead of just irritating to the rest of you who know obviously know everything) had we not been taught to recover from a fully developed spin.
I'd take issue with you a bit there. In the phrase "Basic Pilot Training" the important word is the first one. It is no more "absolutely necessary" that a student is taught in
basic training how to recover from a fully developed spin than it is for him to be taught to recover from an inverted high speed dive by rolling rather than pulling through. What is important is for him to recognise the incipient stages and instinctively recover. Fully developed spins don't need to be part of basic training any more than drifting a car round a corner needs to be part of learning to pass the driving test.
I'd exempt glider pilots from that because they are as a matter of course flying at far more extreme attitudes than a spamcan driver.
Spin training is IMHO best left until after basic training has been completed. Having done it in a Tomahawk and been too scared to look over my shoulder for the source of the terrible creaking noises I'd prefer it to be done in a more robust aircraft, with parachutes.