Watching and hearing about the degradation of training standards in the industry at some schools is scary.
The common practice at a few schools of freshly minted CPLs doing their instructor rating (after achieving a nvfr rating) then teaching with no operational experience does not a good student make. Hearing what some of these "god's gift to aviation" instructors say on the radio is testament to a lack of professionalism and lack of airmanship that is becoming more and more mainstream in both the fixed wing and helicopter industry. Anyone can teach a monkey to fly. Teaching the monkey to think for itself is the hard part.
In part and at times it seems that instructing is becoming a process of chinese whispers. Not sure if anyone else feels the same but it is just something I've witnessed over the past few years.