'Listen (insert trainees first name here), we are both here to do a job, I teach, you listen and hopefully understand, and follow with appropriate action...and, above all, don't argue, and we'll get along just fine.'
An true example of a positive training environment if I'd ever seen one. Is that a joke or someone reminiscing the bygone era when the training department consisted of steely eyed mustache sporting jet jockeys who were partial to the odd pipe and refered to the cabin supervisor as a 'damn fine filly'?
"Listen Bloggs, heres the deal, you sit there like a good chap and listen to what I have to say. It may be a complete load of ****, but just do it. Don't open your trap, I'm the Captain; I know everything!"