One should not be teached basic flying skills in an airliner.....You learn them during your training on props.
You do not need to have a 1000 hours before you can fly.....and unusual attitudes are part of your first 100 hours of flying!!!!
In europe it is common to have F/Os on an airliner with 300H TT. And by my knowledge nothing severe happend because of that untill now. Also lots of guys immediatly start out on the Airbus....again, nothing wrong with that! You do not need a 767 to learn how to fly an airplane!
But when flying an airliner it is dangerous to team up two inexperienced pilots in a cockpit....and thats probably what happend here and to my concern, that was the major cause of this tragedy.....