Originally Posted by Uncle_Jay
"Many students think that the direct cause of every stall is lack of speed'. (P18) Putting the nose on the horizon or more appropriately adjusting the angle of attack, not necessarily putting the nose down where the wing can still stall, is discussed therein.
If you'd said "adjust (or lower) the angle of attack" you'd be right. Putting the nose on the horizon is only the same as lowering the angle of attack in a small selection of initial attitudes. Picture an aircraft performing a loop, it can stall in any part of the loop if the angle of attack is too high, but at only a few points in the loop would it be correct to "place the nose on the horizon" in order to recover.