I have to concur.
I learnt to fly with an instructor who wielded a rolled up newspaper as an aid to directing trainee attention. On course we all learned very quickly and first soloed with not many hours in the book.
My airline introduction and experience was in the days when we were expected to talk the talk and walk the walk and woebetide the guys who didn't.
Summed up succinctly as a relatively new jet F/O when the captain with whom I was flying picked me up on whatever it was that I had done incorrectly. When I observed "You don't miss much" his simple response was "I'm not allowed to".
That stayed with me thereafter as one of those Golden Rule we acquire along the way.