They are pish because you only have one method. The student either learns or they don't.
You don't take into account that every person is different. You have no concept how people learn, even why they learn or why they are all different some more different than others.
Students learned to fly inspite of the instruction given instead because of the instruction given.
Apparently your ilke was exactly the same flying the line. So much knowledge to give but a complete incompetence of sharing it.
The syllabus is the same, the method of teaching has progressed. Its a pity that some of the auld tw@ts are either unwilling or unable to move with it.
I have been exposed to an ex Hamble instructor on my first type rating. Thankfully I wasn't on the recieving end of the sarcastic comments. My sim partner was down for no further training. Thankfully a true instructor took over (Dave Royal) and took 15 mins to sort out a very daft mistake which the ex Hamble TRI had spent 8 hours watching without realising the prat was covering the brakes on a V1 cut. In that 8 hours my sim partner was subjected to comments on the fact that he was a self improver so it was to be expect, if he couldn't fly a crappy turboprop did he expect to fly a jet. Then the final none stressful, bound to get the student to improve "if you don't sort yourself on this next one I am reporting to the company that your training should be stopped." It doesn't work, 15 mins with Dave and problem sorted LPC passed. Thankfully we kept Dave for the rest of the course.