Chuck, are you Richard Bach in disguise, by any chance? !
...if we structured flying training like the education system is structured.
Kindergarten would be held in a farmers grass field and the school room would be a Cub, once the student mastered the Cub to solo they would then enter grade school....
Your sentiments are so redolent of Bach's, as expressed in a short story "School for Perfection" published in "A Gift of Wings".
Reading that book as a teenager contributed a lot to my lifelong interest in aviation.
FBW