You are indeed way too skeptical. I'm sure it will be hard for you to go back to that time where you knew little or next to nothing about airplanes...flying conditions, thermals, how the working parts function in tandem, how to recognize when something is malfunctioning before it becomes a serious problem, learning to talk to ATC, how to gas up your own plane, and overall putting to use and correlating the stuff you learn in the textbook as often as possible so when you DO take that lesson, you can use each lesson to add an additional layer of knowledge, and not just settle for re-learning everything (as I feel I am doing now). Flying is not something that "clicks" for me. At least not yet. Not sure why you have an issue with someone wanting to learn as much as possible about something that doesn't come easy to them.