Originally Posted by
SebastianDesoto
A 4 hour class really isn't that bad with breaks. The best students review and study prior to a lesson and pretty much already know what is expected from them (both flight and ground school). The better instructors guide the students on what and how to study for the next lesson.
Don't know if you ever instructed but a few phrases come to mind; "Learning Plateau" and "Diminshing Returns." No matter how energetic the instructor is students, new students especially will hit a point where there retention level starts to fall off. A perfect example is a new flight student doing touch and go's, there is a point where fatigue sets in (7-8th landing for new students) where there landings and flying will start to regress. That is why a good CFI will call it a day when he sees their student reaching this point.