Flying training in the UK took its lead from methodology pioneered in 1916 by
Robert Smith-Barry who has been referred to as the father of flight training. His system was never adopted in the USA.
The curriculum combined classroom training and dual flight instruction. Students were not led away from potentially dangerous manoeuvres but deliberately exposed to them in controlled environments so they could learn to recover from errors of judgement.
Recently, ICAO reinvented the wheel and introduced a "new concept" to flight training called Threat Error Management (TEM) In 3 years it will celebrate its 100th birthday!