My sentiments exactly.
Had an incident a few years back when a cocky PPL decided to "impress" his 3 pax by deliberately putting a 172RG into a spin. They were lucky that time and lived to tell the tale (eventually). Quite apart from anything else, he was well beyond the W+B limits for utility catagory, and he put the wheels and flaps down for good measure. (the undercarriage had all sorts of probs after that)
When one of the pax finally confessed as to why he had been too terrified to continue his flying training, the CFI gave the pilot a well deserved bollocking.
His response was to argue with the CFI that he was only doing what his instructor had shown him. Monkey see, monkey do. All he could do to justify his actions was yell at the pax for "dobbing him in" He just didn't get it! I was all for barring him for life, but he had a nice little spot on the club committee so he was allowed to continue his suicidal flying. Funny that no-one ever wanted to be his passenger ever again.
Before an aeroplane goes into a spin it has to pass thorugh the folowing stages. Decreasing airspeed. Less effective controls. Abnormally high nose attitude. Stall warner. Out of balance. Wing drop. A pilot who can't recognise these warning signs and simply relax the back pressure to return to normal flight needs a better instructor.