When I was a student I did my solo in 6 hours! I look back and not how great I was, because I wasn't, but how irresponsible my instructor was. After giving 500+ dual myself I realize I had no business flying alone at 6 hours.

I thank God I did not catch some x-wind on short final and ended up in a ditch. Instrucors have a two-sided responsibility; not to solo them when they are ready and not to hold them back when they are ready to solo.

I do not agree about yelling at students but there are times where I have been more than firm when students continue to ignore instruction that could lead to injury or death. A couple of my favorites are; taking all flaps out on a low approach go-around, pitch down full force down on a stall recovery, and everyones favorite pitching up on short final enough to bring on a stall without intervention. All students will make these mistakes but some continue to do them.

I love it when they do not put rudder in during slow flight because it allows me to slam the left rudder down and a spinning we go, after that they always remember rudder.